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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript (2015) Introduction to Methods Understanding this

add this to the method with property values.

At first onset the question appears to be relatively easy, however the implementation I found was a cascade of property nesting within the method declaration. As a way to circumvent "this", I used property values of first and last name above the method so as to maintain stack call ordering. The question I keep having is there another way to do this. And I also have a syntax error, can you find it?

object.js
var contact = {
  firstName : "Andrew";
  lastName : "Chalkley";
  fullName: function() {
    this.firstname; 
    this.lastName;
  //  console.log(firstName + " " + lastName);
  }
}

The code above is incorrect, could someone point me in the right direction.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

:point_right: Your object properties should be separated with commas, not semicolons.

Then, the contents of the function should look something like this:

    console.log(this.firstName + " " + this.lastName);
var contact = {
  fullName: function() {
    firstName : "Andrew",
    lastName : "Chalkley"
    console.log(this.firstName + " " + this.lastName);
  }
}

still did not work