Encourage students to learn how to read regular expressions to prepare for when they come across them in their careers.

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  • Students don’t need to be able to write RegEx from scratch because a lot of professionals don’t.
    • In many languages there are also better alternatives to RegEx (e.g., filter_var in PHP).
  • Reading them and refining your references is enough.
  • Remind students that they’ll always be able to search for answers, which is what professionals do.
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