Merge pull request #6 from nazrhyn/patch-1

Revisions to exercises 8 and 9

exercises/8_start_templating/problem.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ Let's do a little bit of templating!
 * * *
 ## Lead the Way ##
 For this mission, let me show you the `template` function.
-_template() give you a simple and powerfull micro-templating with Lo-Dash.
+_template() gives you access to simple and powerfull micro-templating with Lo-Dash.
 
 ```js
 _.template(text, data)
 ```
-`template` uses your `text`-var as a template and returns a interpolated
+`template` uses your `text`-var as a template and returns interpolated
 text with your `data`.
 In your template you can use `<%= VARNAME %>` to print a variable.
 
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ _.template('<b><%= value %></b>', { value: 'attention' });
 ```
 * * *
 ## Your Mission ##
-Just to get started simple use the template()-function to interpolate
+To get started, use the template() function to interpolate
 a simple var for us:
 
 ```js
 { name: "Foo",
   login: [ 1407574431, 140753421 ]
 }
 ```
-We want a simple string from you showing the name of the user and times,
-the user had logged in (every timestamp represents one login). Your
+We want a simple string greeting the user by name and showing the number of times
+the user has logged in (every timestamp represents one login). Your
 function should return a String like this:
 
 ```

exercises/9_todo_template/problem.md

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # To-do Template #
-If you finished the last exercise you would possibly think "template?
-That's only another type for string-merge!". But the `template` function
+If you finished the last exercise, you might think, "Template?
+That's just another word for string-merge!; but, the `template` function
 in Lo-Dash is very powerful.
 
 * * *
 ## Going deep into template() ##
-`template()` is much more. You can add any kind of javascript-code by
-escaping it with <% %> If you familiar with PHP - <% %> is almost
-the same as <? ?>
+`template()` is much more. You can add any kind of javascript code by
+escaping it with `<% %>`. If you are familiar with PHP, `<% %>` is almost
+the same as `<? ?>`.
 
 #### Example ####
 ```js
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ _.template(mytemplate, {data: [1, 2, 3]});
 <li>3</li>
 */
 ```
-So you can write templates without learning a template-syntax only use
-Javascript - isn't that awesome?
+You can write templates without learning a template syntax -- just use
+Javascript. Isn't that awesome?
 
 
-As a third parameter `template()` accepts a options-object. One of
+As a third parameter, `template()` accepts a options object. One of
 the options I really like and want to show you is `option.imports`.
-With `options.imports` you can define an object to import into the
+With `options.imports`, you can define an object to describe values to import into the
 template as local variables.
 
 #### Example ####
@@ -40,17 +40,16 @@ var ucfirst = function (str) {
 
 _.template('Hello <%= ucfirst(foo) %>', {foo: "mike"}, { 'imports': { 'ucfirst': ucfirst } });
 // Hello Mike
-
 ```
 
-Again - awesome, or?
-template() have many more options, you can read more about that on
+Again, isn't that awesome?
+template() has many more options; you can read more about them on
 [Lo-Dash docs](http://lodash.com/docs#template).
 
 
 * * *
 ## Your Mission ##
-We have a JSON of different To-do's:
+We have a JSON of different to-do's:
 
 ```js
 { "Tom": [
@@ -75,12 +74,12 @@ We have a JSON of different To-do's:
   ]
 }
 ```
-We want to create a simple nested `<ul><li>`-List of all the To-do-items.
-But beside of creating HTML-Code we want you to do:
-- Sort the To-do-items by date (from smallest to biggest)
-- Add a "<b>URGENT</b> " to every `<li>` when the date is only 2 days or less from today.
+We want to create a simple nested `<ul><li>` list of all the to-do items.
+But, in addition to creating HTML code, we want you to:
+- Sort the to-do items by date (from earliest to latest)
+- Add a "<b>URGENT</b>" to every `<li>` when the date is only 2 days or fewer from today.
 
-Your HTML you give us back should look like this:
+The HTML produced should look like this:
 
 
 ```html