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LSBot Questions

Throughout the curriculum, both in assignments and books, you'll run into LSBot Questions. These questions are meant to strengthen your mental models and encourage active learning as you go. Some are more challenging than others, so have an open mind and don't feel like you should be able to answer them all easily.

Answering LSBot Questions

If you think you might know the answer to a question, you can try to answer, and LSBot will give you feedback on your answer. We recommend always trying to answer them on your own, even if afterwards you ask LSBot to answer to get something more complete.

Answering an LSBot question in assignment

Asking LSBot Questions

If you encounter an LSBot Question and you don't feel confident answering it, or simply don't care to, you can click on the question to send it to LSBot, and it will answer the question for you.

Asking an LSBot question in assignment

You'll find LSBot questions throughout all Launch School courses as well as the books. You can try this one now!

Hi! I'm LSBot. I'm here to help you understand this chapter content with fast , focused answers. Any code from the editor will be automatically included with your question.

Ask me about concepts, examples, or anything you'd like clarified from this chapter. I can explain complex topics, provide examples, or help connect ideas.

Switch to Deep Dive mode if you want comprehensive answers across the entire curriculum. Responses may take longer, but I'll draw on the entire Launch School curriculum to give you a fuller picture.

Want to know more? Refer to the LSBot User Guide .

Deep Dive

Normal Markdown & GFM

Github Flavored Markdown

**bold**

~~~~strike through~~~~

`single line of code`

Supports Emoji

Code Blocks

You can write code blocks using three backticks (```) followed by the language you want to show. For instance, if you wanted to write a Ruby code block you would write:

```ruby
class Foo
end
```

class Foo
end

You can also leave out the language identifier, doing this will make it so your code isn't highlighted at all, and all text will be white with no coloring.

```
class Bar
end
```

class Bar
end

Highlighting

You may highlight lines within your code blocks. This is a different type of highlighting, and isn't related to how the code within your code block may be colored depending on the language identifier used.
To highlight one or more lines of code, add # highlight on a separate line just before the first line you wish to highlight. To end highlighting, add # endhighlight on a separate line immediately after the last line you wish to highlight.

```ruby
def say_hello_world
# highlight
  puts 'Hello World!!!'
# endhighlight
end
```

def say_hello_world
# highlight
  puts 'Hello World!!!'
# endhighlight
end