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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Boolean Values

Posted by Hunter Christian Davis
Hunter Christian Davis
2,813 Points

Can someone explain in more depth as to why he is able to put false and it reads the else statement

I do not get the concept as it is not really explained

2 Answers

Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
9,539 Points
Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
Mohammed Khalil Ait Brahim
9,539 Points

Well The thing is in an if else block the if block is only executed if the condition it holds evaluates to true so if the condition evaluates to false which is the case here we go directly to execute the statements in else block

if( true ) {
 // EXECUTE THIS
}
else {
 // THIS WILL NOT BE EXECUTED
}

if( false ) {
 // THIS WILL NOT EXECUTE
}
else {
 // EXECUTE THIS
}
Hunter Christian Davis
Hunter Christian Davis
2,813 Points

thank you ... that is what I was looking for

Stephen Petruzziello
Stephen Petruzziello
7,084 Points

Sometimes you just gotta go forward in the teaching to see how and why things are used.

Isaac Al-Wahaibi
Isaac Al-Wahaibi
6,522 Points

that was so helpful ,, thanks Mohammed

Adam Oliver
Adam Oliver
8,214 Points
Adam Oliver
Adam Oliver
8,214 Points

correctGuess must = something. You assign it false by default, that way it can only be changed to true if the player guesses correctly. ELSE it stays as it was (false).