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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Improving the Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
6,429 Points

Else if and IF

I never really understand why we have to use Else If statements at all

2 Answers

Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points
Robbie Thomas
Robbie Thomas
31,093 Points

Treehouse has a practice edition to if/else in JavaScript.

Perhaps you can do the practice until you can get it down. I just did the PHP if/else practice and did badly at it, I'm going to have to give it mulitple tries to get that down.

Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points

In short the else if () adds more options to your logic vs just if () else.