sass-feedback-lesson-3-outline.md

sass-feedback-lesson-3-outline

Lession 3: Editorial Review:

Functions and Operations 

This is over all good!; overall feedback is to try your best to go a layer deeper than functionality, but also get at the concept

* why are functions and operators in sass?
* why are computations useful?
* why would a conditional statement be useful 

there need not be lengthy, but giving a user a reason to learn something helps them understand how it all fits together. 



1. Function & Operations 

One thing would do is have an exercise at the beginning to introduce the concept of functions and operation in sass.

i. What are they
ii. Why are they useful in Sass. i.e. a student may thing "I thought Sass was about design, why am I doing math in a frontend language



3. Computing can get overly technical quickly. As you continue you to write this, think about structure/organization so this info is clear to users. 



5. if()

Remind users of conditionals that they have used in other languages, then give them a basic example of how it works in sass. 

you can give them a simple example first, and if you want to move if(), you have full liberty to do this. 



7. For loops

editorial answer: natalia, you can conceptually lay the foundation with something like

many programming languages like javascript, python, and ruby have a concept of a for loop to do X. in sass, we can use the for loop to do Y. 

i would veer away from talking too much about similarities of syntax! but conceptual similarities is totally fine. 


10. generalizations:

make sure you're giving users a reference at the end to review everything. 

something like an index of all things they learn would be more helpful than new information. you can provide some new info, just be sure to summarize