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Kim Dallas
11,461 Pointssomething is wrong.
in his simple example , he uses brackets. isn't a string in javascript in <>? this should work?
var answer= prompt("what is the best programming language?")
if answer === <Javascript> {
document.write <p> ("You are correct."); </p>)
}
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
10 Answers
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsSorry, it should be
If(x===y){result}
I’ve been pretty acclimated to Python for the last eternity
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsPut the answer in “”?
Kim Dallas
11,461 PointsI tried that ryan but it's still sticking.
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsHave you tried it in your code editor? What errror does it give you?
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsOh.
What I would recommend would be removing the <>. Also, maybe wrap str() around the prompt, and also append answer.lower() === “javascript”
I haven’t coded in JS for a while- so append my code to work for the JS syntax
Kim Dallas
11,461 Pointsthis is exactly how the instructor said to do this in his example of a simple conditional quiz. but it is not working. im confused
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsOh! The entire condition has to be in parenthesis I think?
Ryan Pierson
14,365 PointsIf (x=y){ result }
Kim Dallas
11,461 Pointsi'll try anything right now ryan. thanks
James Nakolah
10,542 PointsHello Kim,
Good attempt but there a few things you need to change for that to work. First, enclose strings in quotation (" ") marks. Also, document.write is a function. What I mean is that it needs to be called like document.write("write something");
According to the question in the practice exercise you're doing here, you'll not need to use document.write();, an alert is what is required.
Your code refactored would be something close to:
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if (answer.toLowerCase() === "javascript") {
alert("You are correct!");
} else {
alert("JavaScript is the best language.");
}
Cheers! Keep on hacking it!
Kim Dallas
11,461 PointsThank you. I'm drawing a complete blank on this for some reason. I'm trying to finish it but my brain is locked up