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Joseph Carrillo
2,137 PointsThe Conditional Challenge
I believe i accomplished what i was supposed to in the code challenge.
var score = 0;
var questions = 5;
var questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
var question1;
var question2;
var question3;
var question4;
var question5;
question1 = prompt('Is JavaScript A Programming Language?' + questionsLeft );
question1 = question1.toUpperCase();
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
if (question1 === 'YES') {
score = score + 20;
}
question2 = prompt('Is the earth round?' + questionsLeft);
question2 = question2.toUpperCase();
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
if (question2 === 'YES') {
score = score + 20;
}
question3 = prompt('Is the sky blue?' + questionsLeft);
question3 = question3.toUpperCase();
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
if (question3 === 'YES') {
score = score + 20;
}
question4 = prompt('Do you like pizza?' + questionsLeft);
question4 = question4.toUpperCase();
questions -= 1;
questionsLeft = ' [' + questions + ' questions left]';
if (question4 === 'YES') {
score = score + 20;
}
question5 = prompt('Do you like to play this game?' + questionsLeft);
question5 = question5.toUpperCase();
if (question5 === 'YES') {
score = score + 20;
}
if (score === 100) {
document.write('You received a perfect score! <br />');
document.write('You got gold! <br />');
document.write('You score is: ' + score);
} else if ( score <= 80 && score >= 60 ) {
document.write('You got silver <br />');
document.write('You score is: ' + score);
} else if ( score <= 40 && score >= 20 ) {
document.write('You got bronze! <br />');
document.write('You score is: ' + score);
} else {
document.write('You get nothing!');
}
Joseph Carrillo
2,137 PointsSteven Parker just want to know if i am accomplishing the task, i believe so because i am keeping a track of the questions, prompting the user for the questions, and testing how many he/she got right.
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsIt sounds like you've already determined the program meets the requirements.
But now if you want you could use it as DRY ("Don't Repeat Yourself") coding practice and make it more compact. Notice how some of the code is almost exactly duplicated several times? What if you had the questions and answers stored in array(s) and used a loop to ask and score the questions?
Joseph Carrillo
2,137 PointsI was trying to do that earlier but i could not get the logic down how i would start to do that. I was thinking about using a for loop to ask the questions but when i did so i looped five times asking the same questions five times.
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsBut what if the questions were in an array, and each time through the loop you used the loop counter as an index into the array?
Joseph Carrillo
2,137 PointsSteven Parker, thanks! I will have to think a little bit more about this once i get to arrays and loops. Thank you for your idea to help me.
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsSteven Parker
231,269 PointsWhen posting code, be sure to format it using the instructions in the Markdown Cheatsheet pop-up found below the "Add an Answer" area.
Also, did you have a specific question or issue with this code?