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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript Object Basics Filling Out the Play Method

Posted by Nathaniel Lozada
Nathaniel Lozada
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Do not quite know how to answer this question about objects in Javascript

The directions say that I am to- inside the play method- provide an empty 'if' statement to check if it is the player's turn, and use dot notation. However, I have no idea what these things have to do with each other, or how to use dot notation to create an if statement, or how to check for the player's turn.

Here is my code, in case it does not appear:

const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
        // write code here.
    }
}

1 Answer

Daniel Turato
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Daniel Turato
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Daniel Turato
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So you need to check if its the player's turn or not. You can check this by checking if the isTurn property is set to true. Then to refrence the current context, you have to use the this keyword on isTurn. You can learn more about this here if you don't understand it fully - https://medium.com/quick-code/understanding-the-this-keyword-in-javascript-cb76d4c7c5e8 . Now for an empty if statement, it basically means you don't have to write any code in it's body. So if you do these things, you will get this:

if (this.isTurn) {      
}