MakeCode Tutorial tool not pulling tutorial from GitHub

[bmarslandCN]

Describe the bug I am encountering a bug with storing a tutorial in a github repo and opening it in MakeCode Arcade.

We have several tutorials being stored in a github repo https://github.com/Code-Ninjas-Home-Office/game-building-session-tutorials and have added the tutorial names to the pxt.json files section. The other tutorials are all able to be opened, except one tutorial (https://github.com/Code-Ninjas-Home-Office/game-building-session-tutorials/blob/master/ninja-stars.md), and we cannot figure out what is causing this issue. I have gone through the code several times and found no difference from other tutorials that are opening correctly. I have cleared my cache and tried other browser windows and incognito windows. I have even deleted the code and created a new file with the same code and the same result.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to (https://arcade.makecode.com/#tutorial:https://github.com/Code-Ninjas-Home-Office/game-building-session-tutorials/ninja-stars)
2. See error

Expected behavior The tutorial should open in the MakeCode Tutorial tool, as the other ones do.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 11
• Chrome 112

Thank you! @kiki-lee @riknoll @jwunderl @abchatra

[jwunderl]

The code snippets appear to have been pasted in weirdly into the file -- if you look at the raw text, there's a lot of extra spacing, and when I inspect it I'm seeing some non-breaking spaces that appear to be thwarting the JSON parser

Did you possibly copy these into word or another word processor before putting them into the git repo? anyways, replacing the nbsp's with normal spaces appears to fix it, e.g. https://arcade.makecode.com/#tutorial:17962-74287-62095-51746. I put up https://github.com/Code-Ninjas-Home-Office/game-building-session-tutorials/pull/1 that should fix it.

[bmarslandCN]

@jwunderl in fact, we did copy/paste it from a Word doc (which caused lots of other issues too!) Funny enough I was just about to edit that and the copy/pasted assets.json file too. Will update and test. Thank you!

[kiki-lee]

So, the project works when you remove the assetjson. I'm wondering if you're defining something in the pxt.json for this tutorial that's also defined in the parent directory?

When I swap in the assetjson from find-the-ninja, I can get this to work.

[kiki-lee]

I was late to the party ^ :)

[bmarslandCN]

@kiki-lee not late at all! that only helped to confirm that the assets.json file needed to be updated too. thank you for helping me debug!

[bmarslandCN]

IT WORKS! Thank you both so much @kiki-lee @jwunderl