A better way to begin Lesson 3

[yuanxiesa]

Hi, I suggest removing the example of the "analyze" function at the very beginning. The reason is that I found the second example (function "print_words") is a more straight-forward and compelling example to demonstrate the limitation of hard-coding and the value of loops to the learners. I understand putting the "analyze" function at the beginning may show the continuity. But in practice, it is just not a powerful example and risks losing learners' attention.

Thanks!

[HaoZeke]

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. Do you think reworking the analyze function to use mfrow to make the example shorter might help? The idea is to have a motivating example, but it is true that the current form is visually noisy.

In an actual workshop the instructors would probably gloss over the analyze function itself at this stage.

[maria-pro]

HaoZeke,

I believe it is not the use of the function itself but rather the task itself and moreover the question it is linked to - the wording does not play nicely with the previous lesson, #2

How can I do the same thing to multiple data sets?

The notion of "function" is already introduced, so why not use it?

A possible change can be:

What do I do if I have different data sets, but need to repeat the same steps?

How can I apply a function to different data sets

Some sort of introductory sentence is also needed there at the start:

As we saw in the previous lesson, performing same steps again and again can be a routine task created as a function. One of such routine tasks can be performing the same analysis on different datasets

[HaoZeke]

Thank you for the clarifications! I think your changes make a lot of sense, would you be willing to put them in a PR?