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    The document discusses how auto-graded programming assignments can be challenging for students because examples provided by instructors often interleave input and output. While examples show both user input and program output, the program itself should only output the output parts and not echo the user's input. An incorrect program is provided as an example that echoes the input, which would fail test cases that do not expect the input to be output. Students are advised to modify the program to only output the expected output parts to pass the auto-graded tests.

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    The document discusses how auto-graded programming assignments can be challenging for students because examples provided by instructors often interleave input and output. While examples show both user input and program output, the program itself should only output the output parts and not echo the user's input. An incorrect program is provided as an example that echoes the input, which would fail test cases that do not expect the input to be output. Students are advised to modify the program to only output the expected output parts to pass the auto-graded tests.

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    The document discusses how auto-graded programming assignments can be challenging for students because examples provided by instructors often interleave input and output. While examples show both user input and program output, the program itself should only output the output parts and not echo the user's input. An incorrect program is provided as an example that echoes the input, which would fail test cases that do not expect the input to be output. Students are advised to modify the program to only output the expected output parts to pass the auto-graded tests.

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    13 zyLab training: Interleaved input /


    output
    Auto-graded programming assignments have numerous advantages, but have
    some challenges too. Students commonly struggle with realizing that example
    input / output provided in an assignment's specification interleaves input and
    output, but the program should only output the output parts. If a program
    should double its input, an instructor might provide this example:
    Enter x:
    5
    x doubled is: 10
    Students often incorrectly create a program that outputs the 5. Instead, the
    program should only output the output parts:
    Enter x:
    x doubled is: 10
    The instructor's example is showing both the output of the program, AND the
    user's input to that program, assuming the program is developed in an
    environment where a user is interacting with a program. But the program itself
    doesn't output the 5 (or the newline following the 5, which occurs when the
    user types 5 and presses enter).
    Also, if the instructor configured the test cases to observe whitespace, then
    according to the above example, the program should output a newline
    after Enter x: (and possibly after the 25, if the instructor's test case expects
    that).
    The program below incorrectly echoes the user's input to the output.

    1. Try submitting it for grading (click "Submit mode", then "Submit for
    grading"). Notice that the test cases fail. The first test case's highlighting
    indicates that output 3 and newline were not expected. In the second
    test case, the -5 and newline were not expected.
    2. Remove the code that echoes the user's input back to the output, and
    submit again. Now the test cases should all pass.
    print('Enter x: ')

    x = int(input())

    print('x doubled is:', (2 * x))

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