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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge Solution

Mike Aquan-Assee
Mike Aquan-Assee
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Posted by Mike Aquan-Assee
Mike Aquan-Assee
15,336 Points

Challenge solution

in this example: correct += 1;

What does the += mean?

2 Answers

Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
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The way I remember it is that something is equal to something... but now I want to ADD something to it. Like Rydavim said, it can be used to increment a value, but can also be used to add to a string.

list = "blue"

list += "car"

Now... list = "bluecar"

rydavim
rydavim
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rydavim
rydavim
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It's a shorthand, usually used for incrementing by a value.

// These two things are the same.
correct = correct + 1; 
correct += 1;