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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge Solution

Mark Reitz
Mark Reitz
692 Points
Posted by Mark Reitz
Mark Reitz
692 Points

can't get get anything

I started with this and am super frustrated. I can't even get past the first if - else scenario. What am I doing wrong?

var a = 10; var b = 20; var c = 30; var d = 40; var e = 50; var answerTrue = true; var answerFalse = false; var score = 0; var correctAnswers = 0;

var question1 = prompt("Is a > 20.....true or false"); if (question1.toUpperCase === "no") { alert("You are correct"); } else { alert("You are Wrong") }

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

There are a couple of issues, mainly with the toUpperCase method call:

  1. When calling a method you have to place a pair of parenthesis after its name, this is the case regardless of whether you are passing in any values to the method. So question1.toUpperCase should be question1.toUpperCase().
  2. The toUpperCase method will convert the string you call it on to upper case, but after converting the string you compare it to a lowercase solution. Meaning that if "No" was entered as an answer the comparison would become "NO" === "no", which would be evaluated as false since JavaScript is case-sensitive.

When converting the case of the answer you need to make sure the solution is written in the same case that the answer is converted to. So either you need to change your code to question1.toUpperCase() === "NO" or you need to replace the toUpperCase method with toLowerCase like this: question1.toLowerCase() === "no".

Fixing that issue will make your code work, but I assume you want the "a" inside of your question prompt to be replaced with the actual value of the a variable, rather than just printing out the literal letter "a" like you currently do. In that case you have to use string concatenation like this for example: prompt("Is " + a + " > 20.....true or false").