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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Working With Numbers The Random Challenge Solution

Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts
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Posted by Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts
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The video vs. what I wrote. How do I know what the "right" way is if so many variations exist?

The below is what I wrote to complete the challenge. It doesn't look much like what Dave walked us through in the explanation video though. First of all, is the below correct? Secondly, how do I know what the "right" way to code is? It seems like everyone can write differently and get the same output.

var question = parseInt(prompt("Enter any number you would like!"));

var questionTwo = parseInt(prompt("Enter a second number!"));

alert("Now I will give you a number between " + question + " and " + questionTwo);

var dieRoll = Math.floor(Math.random() * questionTwo) + 1;

document.write('Your new number is ' + dieRoll);

1 Answer

Jeffrey Meesters
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Jeffrey Meesters
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Jeffrey Meesters
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Jeffrey Meesters
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Hi Sam,

Making it work is step 1. Then when progressing trough the tutorial and/or when just coding more and more you'll learn best practices along the way.

Then, making it work is still step 1, and then you'd start refactoring your code to use best practices like:

step 1:

let someVariable = true;
let doIt = ""
if (someVariable) { 
   doit = "Oke"; 
} else {
   dotit = "Nope"
}

step 2:

let someVariable = true;
let doit = (somevariable) ? "Oke" : "Nope";

So there is not really a wrong way, only a better. And that becomes important when your applications become big in usage and thus your code speed starts to matter, but always make sure your code is readable for humans/co-developers. So when someone else has to work on it that person can understand what you did... or thing about when you have to work on code you wrote months ago... you yourself then needs to understand what you did in the past.