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3 years ago As a side note, perhaps we should actually render annotations that are automatically inserted by Primer with a red ring or other "error" indication, since they're nearly always not what you want and therefore are a very good indicator that the student is probably on the wrong track?
@brprice what do you think?
(This comes from @annedino4's User Research Report Round 2, issue number 1.)
In https://github.com/hackworthltd/vonnegut/pull/737, we decided to draw a red ring around holes (including non-empty holes) to draw the student's attention to missing parts of the program. Initial testing indicates that when students see a non-empty hole, they immediately think they've made an error, which is sometimes true, but not always. Primer of course cannot tell the difference, so should we not draw a red ring around non-empty holes?
The red outline around empty holes seems OK, because those are generated automatically and not directly as the result of a student's action, therefore perhaps they're less likely to think of these as errors, and simply as parts of the program that need to be filled in.