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Practice Object Basics in JavaScript

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Adding a Property Solution

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Solution video for adding a property on the fly code challenge.

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    For this previous challenge, 0:00
    you were to add a property to the object literal on the fly. 0:01
    This property is characters, and it's set to the number of characters in the string. 0:04
    Outside of the object literal you can add a new property to it by 0:10
    accessing the new property with dot or bracket notation and giving it a value. 0:13
    This process is a lot like creating a new variable. 0:18
    myString.characters indicates that now there is going to be a new property on 0:22
    myString called characters. 0:26
    Then we assign it a value, just like you do when you declare a variable. 0:28
    Now, strings, like arrays, come with a property called length. 0:33
    On a string, the length property returns the number of characters. 0:37
    We'll access the length property on the string property of the myString object. 0:41
    Great work. 0:51
    We can test this out by logging the value of the characters property to the console. 0:52
    Now I'll save and jump down to the terminal. 1:02
    Looks great, there are 34 characters in this phrase. 1:10
    Don't worry, I counted. 1:13

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