What is wrong with my code?

Question

var number; for (var counter=4; counter<=156; counter+=1) { number+=counter }
console.log(number)

script.js

var number;
for (var counter=4; counter<=156; counter+=1) {
  number+=counter
}  
console.log(number)

Answer 1 · 2017-05-07T17:46:26Z

May 7, 2017 5:46pm

Hey Ethan,

There are a few things going wrong here, but you seem to be overthinking and overcomplicating this one a little bit:

You don't need a separate variable declared before the loop, so delete that.
The console.log() needs to be inside of the loop, or it will only execute once... when the loop has finished all iterations.
Because the name variable no longer exists, the incrementing line inside the loop needs to be deleted (and replaced with the console.log().
You need to be logging out the counter, so console.log(name) needs to be console.log(counter).

Give it another go with these in mind. I'm sure you'll get it now. :) If you're still stuck, let me know.

Keep coding!

Answer 2 · 2017-05-08T08:16:17Z

May 8, 2017 8:16am

I got it correct. The code was much easier than expected. Thank you so much for the help!

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