var age = { age: "20"; }

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Q.Create a variable named age and store your age in the variable.

I understand this as I need to create a variable or var and name it age. I tried different things and even tried lookig at what other people are doing on the discussion thing. Nothing is working.

script.js

var age = {
  age: "20";
}

index.html

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2018-05-28T20:05:04Z

May 28, 2018 8:05pm

Hi Michael! You are pushing it a bit :) They are three basic types of variables: strings, numbers and booleans Number:

var age = 20;

String:

var name = "Tsenko";

Boolean:

var isDay = false;

Basically, it goes like this: if you have a number of some kind ( floating number, simple number ) you type the special word "var" than you give your variable a name aka "age" and than you assign a value to it using "=". Is as simple as that. Just remember this, when you assign a number, there is no need of quotes, just type the number, if you type quotes, it's a string and finally, when you want to use booleans, you just type true or false - no quotes no nothing. The curly braces is another thing but it's just too early to explain it now :)

Answer 2 · 2018-05-28T19:55:21Z

May 28, 2018 7:55pm

You're overthinking. Try:

var age = 20;

The age can be an integer, so is written as just 20. If you enclose it in quotes it becomes a string. variables are not wrapped in curly braces.

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