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

Posted by Kristjan Vingel
Kristjan Vingel
7,992 Points

My solution (that seems to be working)

As I've never posted here, I thought this would be a great chance to open my post score here on Teamtreehouse.

I think it's so crazy that just around a week ago, I hadn't written a single line of code and now I did this.

Thank you Teamtreehouse!

// First question
let score = 0;
let firstQuestion = prompt("What is the capital of Estonia?").toLowerCase();
if (firstQuestion === "tallinn") {
    score += 1;
    alert("Correct!");
} else {
    score -= 0;
    alert("Wrong!");
}
console.log(firstQuestion + ": Score so far: " + score);

// Second question

let secondQuestion = prompt("What is the capital of Hungary?").toLocaleLowerCase();
if (secondQuestion === "budapest") {
    score += 1;
    alert("Awesome! That's correct!");
} else {
    score -= 0
    alert("That is not correct!");
}
console.log(secondQuestion + ": Score so far: " + score);

// Third question

let thirdQuestion = prompt("What is the capital of Finland?").toLocaleLowerCase();
if (thirdQuestion === "helsinki") {
    score += 1;
    alert("That's correct!");
} else {
    score -= 0;
    alert("That is not correct!");
}
console.log(thirdQuestion + ": Score so far: " + score);

// Fourth question

let fourthQuestion = prompt("What is the capital of Australia?").toLocaleLowerCase();
if (fourthQuestion === "canberra") {
    score += 1;
    alert("That's correct!");
} else {
    score -= 0;
    alert("That is not correct!");
}
console.log(fourthQuestion + ": Score so far: " + score);

// Fifth question

let fifthQuestion = prompt("What is the capital of Bulgaria?").toLocaleLowerCase();
if (fifthQuestion === "sofia") {
    score += 1;
    alert("That's correct!");
} else {
    score -= 0;
    alert("That is not correct!");
    alert("That is the end of the quiz. Thank you!");
}
console.log(fifthQuestion + ": Score so far: " + score);



let prize = "";


if (score === 5) {
    prize = "gold";
} else if (score < 5 && score > 3) {
    prize = "silver";
} else if (score <= 3 && score > 0) {
    prize = "bronze";
} else {
    prize = "nothing";
}
console.log(prize);
alert("You got " + prize);

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

Good job, and great start on coding! :+1:

One little suggestion: when you have an "if ... else if" chain, you don't need to re-test conditions that would be caught by previous tests, so you can simplify it a bit:

if (score === 5) {
    prize = "gold";
} else if (score > 3) {
    prize = "silver";
} else if (score > 0) {
    prize = "bronze";
// ...

But that's very minor compared to the consolidation you'll be able to achieve when you get to functions.

Kristjan Vingel
Kristjan Vingel
7,992 Points

You're right, it makes more sense. Thank you for the tip!