Completely misunderstanding the requirements? Yeah that's a dev alright.
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Programmer? IDK. Looks kind of antigrammar to me.
An amateurgrammar, if you will.
I like how fox stays the same.
I like how pond is backwards.
Eirrv is such a better word for river that I'm retconning the English language
Feels like some new age Sindarin. I’m here for it tbh.
i wonder how many words are like that
If you're on this sub, this is a good programming exercise for you if you're interested. I'm sure there are plenty of large lists of words in English, that should provide all the data needed.
There are massive lists, the search is English words corpus
https://www.english-corpora.org/ is an excellent starting place
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- alphabet
- come
- in
- order
- the
- they
FTFY:
5. the
6. the
The alphabet provided ends with X. However, you apparently remove duplicates so maybe just cross out the last row?
Still an error unfortunately. Should be:
- the
- bart
- the
We really should stick with the orginal German verision.
- Die
- Bart
- Die
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One important skill for school is to look at the entire question so that you can understand what the teacher is asking for, even if they don't format the question exactly right.
In this case, your answer would not fit into the 6 spaces provided for the answer.
So you have to ask yourself what they meant by "Write the following words". Since "the" is the same word repeated twice, once you've written "the" after 5, then I could argue that "the" has already been written.
Therefore, if there are only six blanks for the answer, looking at the entire question, I argue that the answer I provided is most likely correct.
You'll satisfy the teacher as often as possible and get good grades. I want to feel right as often as possible, which means I'll disrupt the class often and get called out during the parents-teachers meeting.
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fox
I like it. He didn't meet the assignment but he proved his knowledge. Now to see if they mark on knowledge learnt or subjugation.
They did fail to demonstrate knowledge of lexicographical order, which this exercise seems to be aiming for with the inclusion of pond and pumpkin, so I think it's a bit cynical to consider failing the student on this a means of opression or subjugation.
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The question is poorly worded. It asks for words in the order they come in the alphabet. Words aren't in the alphabet. Letters are in the alphabet, so they reordered the letters.
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I like this kid.
Or autistic. Most definitely autistic.
OP already said programmer
Some become engineers.
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With more than three repetitions of the same algorithm the kid should've been automating the process.
Forty is the only number when spelled out that is in alphabetical order
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It makes sense if not taught the conventions of alphabetizing first. Kids don't know what they don't know.
Mr. Rogers understood this on a deep level.
~~malicious~~ naive compliance
In case anyways else looked for the comments to try to figure out what was done wrong, the expected answer would be: apple, fox, log, pond, pumpkim, river.
Are you sure? Apple is crossed out (presumably as a hint to cross them out as you add them to the list)
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list.toSorted() vs list.map(word => word.toSorted())
(note that you can't actually do string.toSorted() in js you have to convert into a list and back)
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