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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 2 Solution

Grzegorz Zielinski
Grzegorz Zielinski
5,838 Points

Opinion about my JS

I wonder what you think about my solution for this challenge :)

let questionAndAnswers = [
  ['What is the capital city in Poland?','warsaw'],
  ['The longes river in Poland?','wisla'],
  ['How many milions people live in Poland?','35']
];

function print(message) {
 var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output');
 outputDiv.innerHTML = message;
}

function questions(question) {
  let answer = prompt(questionAndAnswers[question][0]);
  return answer.toLowerCase();  
}

function createAnswer(type) {
    if ( type.length > 0 ) {
    let print =`<ol><li>`;
    print += type.join('</li><li>');
    print += `</li></ol>`;
    return print;  
 } else {   
    return `None`;
 }
}

let html = '';
let counter = 0;
let goodAnswers = [];
let badAnswers = [];

for ( var i = 0; i < questionAndAnswers.length; i += 1) {

  let answer = questions(i);
  let position = questionAndAnswers[i].indexOf(answer); 

  if ( position === 1 ) {
    goodAnswers.push(questionAndAnswers[i][0]);
  } else if ( position === -1) {
    badAnswers.push(questionAndAnswers[i][0]);
  }

  if ( position === 1 ) {
    counter += 1;
  }   
}

html = `You got ${counter} question(s) right. 
<h2>You got these questions correct:</h2>${createAnswer(goodAnswers)} 
<h2>You got these questions wrong:</h2>${createAnswer(badAnswers)}`;
print(html);

Any advise about what I could change or improve? Thanks!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

Looks very nice, good job! :+1:

Some minor suggestions:

  • be more consistent about indentation amounts and using it to show nesting level
  • use ordinary strings for efficiency when there is no interpolation to be done
  • you can skip using an "else" when the "if" condition returns

Example:

function createAnswer(type) {
  if (type.length > 0) {
    return `<ol><li>${type.join("</li><li>")}</li></ol>`;
  }
  return "None";
}

Clever use of "join", by the way.

Grzegorz Zielinski
Grzegorz Zielinski
5,838 Points

Thank you for advice, I'll keep them in mind!

use ordinary strings for efficiency when there is no interpolation to be done

Do you mean using " " + " " rather than ${} ? I didn't know that using affects efficiency.

Clever use of "join", by the way.

Thanks!

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

I mean use " or ' instead of ` when you don't have any ${} to be replaced in the string.