Answer for Challenge Task 1 of 2?

Hi Jon,

Looks like the challenge interpreter is being really fussy. I pasted your code into the challenge and had to make two changes.

First, I had to remove the space between the opening parenthesis and this. I'm not sure why this was necessary, maybe there is linter rule behind the scenes that requires no spaces between open parens and a statement.

Second, I had to remove the unnecessary === true. Remember that a JavaScript condition wants a boolean expression. Something like x === 5 is a boolean expression because it evaluates to true or false. In the case of isTurn, it already is boolean (true) so you don't need to compare it to anything to make it evaluate to a boolean value. Any time you have a boolean-type value (let's say it's in the variable myBool) you can write an if expression as follows:

if (myBool) {
   // do something
}

It still seems unreasonable for the challenge parser to fail the code though, since the === true, while redundant, isn't invalid syntax.

Hope that helps

Alex

your code looks ok to me too , maybe try writing the if statement a little more minimal like this -->

const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
      if (this.isTurn) {
      }
    }
}

hope it works! :-? :D