written assignment error handling

[TheMaja]

• created new directory for javascript and python error handling
• added java content

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[Ngoakor12]

I don't think these will be allowed in python, it will cause type errors.

[Ngoakor12]

are the prerequisite correct?

[Ngoakor12]

• I don't think the "In your programming language" part is necessary for questions that are general and don't involve code.
• I think it would be good to have some code snippets related questions too and have the learner pick and explain certaint things like in the tdd written assignment.
• I think a question about why we use try catch/except when handling errors would be good because most learners don't know that it's for graceful handling of errors instead of breaking the whole program when it's not necessary

1. I think this should be one question, you can rephrase the it or remove the part from "and"
2. I think we should explicitly say if we want the learners to provide examples and mention how many(E.g. "provide at least 1 example")
3. I think this could be rephrased to one question or the last part of the question removed or made it's own question

• We should also link to the submission instructions for written assignments

[Ngoakor12]

• The prerequisite are wrong. E.g. If you are doing web dev, you won't be able to work on this assignment because you haven't done the java and python error handling topics
• I also think we should try and follow the test-driven development written assignments(umuzi/ACN-syllabus/content/topics/test-driven-development-questions/_index.md) as much as possible. This means: creating a topic that covers general info about error handling. E.g. the intro of each topic since it's being repeated in each language topic. Then in that topic we can link to language specific topics for error handling. We can then link this new topic as the prerequisite to this assignment

[Ngoakor12]

"In your programming language" should be mentioned somewhere in this sentence since we require an example

[Ngoakor12]

• "In your programming language", should also be included in this sentence.
• We could also ask them to explain why.
• Which example would you say is good in the snippets? I think the "good" example could be improved. E.g.

try {
  // Code...
} catch (error) {
	throw new Error(`Unexpected error occured while doing ${action} with ${computerSpecs}. Error stack: ${JSON.stringify(error.stack)}`)
}

This is just an example of rethrowing with more context while not ignoring the caught error