When students are working on code, they sometimes copy-and-paste to and from other programs which 'correct' some of the characters to illegal characters. For example, the double quote " commonly used for strings may be replaced with ”. This causes the code runner to fail but may not be clear to students that it has done so.
We could show students a warning for common incorrect characters (although doing so may be confusing if they're deliberately using those characters within a string), or automatically replace such characters when an error is encountered. There may be better ideas!
When students are working on code, they sometimes copy-and-paste to and from other programs which 'correct' some of the characters to illegal characters. For example, the double quote " commonly used for strings may be replaced with ”. This causes the code runner to fail but may not be clear to students that it has done so.
We could show students a warning for common incorrect characters (although doing so may be confusing if they're deliberately using those characters within a string), or automatically replace such characters when an error is encountered. There may be better ideas!