Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 13

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# User Editable Region

text = 'Hello World'
shift = 3
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
alphabet.find('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')

# User Editable Region

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 13

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You appear to have created this post without editing the template. Please edit your post to Tell us what’s happening in your own words.

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Would a search not help you?
https://forum.freecodecamp.org/search?q=Building%20a%20cipher%20step%2013
Sometimes it is very beneficial to search in the struggle for understanding. By doing so it clarifies what you understand and able to put in words and explain the problem.

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Please Tell us what’s happening in your own words.

Learning to describe problems is hard, but it is an important part of learning how to code.

Also, the more you say, the more we can help!

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While search results can be part of a helpful answer, it’s recommended to say more to guide users.

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What’s your objective? Are you trying to coach me or are you saying that my contribution is not enough?
I contribute what I feel it is a proper help. No more no less. I am not preventing anyone on giving more. Do not mistake my words as defensive.

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I’m trying to politely ask you not to only post a link to search results when helping a user.

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Can you provide some more information why you are politely asking me not to post a link to a search? I understand if you would like to do that privately to not affect this thread.

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Effectively telling a user ‘go search for the answer’ isn’t the sort of friendly discussion based atmosphere we try to have on the forum.

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I see, you associate posting a search with unfriendliness and bad atmosphere. OK, got it.

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Please talk with the other users instead of just posting links to searches. This forum is here to answer the same questions thousands of times.

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There was an introduction to the link. It was NOT just a link search. Nevertheless, I have edited that post and added the intention. Hope that helps.

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Yes, please just do that in the future

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There will be no future. You may delete my account if you please. This exchange has been sufficient for me.

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Read, Search and Ask are the 3 frameworks - and in that order - that freeCodeCamp adviced us learners to make use of.
@anon28508191 @JeremyLT you are both correct in your approach. We may want to cool down the tone of response to each other as this seems the only way to guage the other’s meaning. But guess what we all fail at this now and then.

Requesting to search is not bad. Asking to engage and offer guide is also right. I’m also learning not to give direct answers. Though in some cases it depends.

You guys are wonderful. Please don’t stop the good work. You guys are part of my shining example.

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Read-Search-Ask is a great approach. Helping a user do a search can be part of helping when they Ask, but we want to make sure our replies aren’t “let me Google that for you”. One of the goals of the forum has been to answer the same questions for each user that asks.

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Welcome back to the forum @marshal

At the end of your code, call .find() on your alphabet string and pass text[0] to the method.

For this step, you need to pass the expression mentioned in the instructions to the .find method.

Happy coding

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