freeCodeCamp: Poorly worded challenge: Project Euler: Problem 2: Even Fibonacci Numbers

Describe your problem and how to reproduce it: The current challenge description makes it sound like n terms have to be generated while what we’re checking for is the current term to be less than n

Add a Link to the page with the problem: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/coding-interview-prep/project-euler/problem-2-even-fibonacci-numbers

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Created 4 years ago
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@ChoukseyKhushbu I believe we have already decided not to reword the instruction and instead focus on adding extra tests.

RandellDawson on Jul 17, 2020

True. My wording looks a little weird unless already know what’s going on. Arguably even then.

Let’s go with your wording. I think it conveys what I wanted to, but does so a little better.

ojeytonwilliams on May 27, 2020

It’s unclear to me what you guys decided on … Or an additional test, Your function should sum the even-valued Fibonacci numbers: fiboEvenSum(8) should return 10. I think you wanted an additional test.

Sorry for letting this slide - yes, that’s what I think should happen.

This one is probably on the easier side versus some of the others as well. How much are we willing to alter Rosetta and Euler descriptions to help people understand things?

Adding extra tests is effectively adding to the description, so I think that’s enough. Any more than that and we start diverging from Project Euler while still calling the section ‘Project Euler’.

ojeytonwilliams on Jul 10, 2020

Okay, cool. I think any broader discussion of Project Euler would be better in its own thread.

As for this one, does anyone have any more thoughts on clarification via tests? If not, I think this would be a good issue for first timers.

ojeytonwilliams on May 8, 2020