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Chris H
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,368 Pointscode challenge recap swift types step 2
Having issues understanding step 2 of swift recap types, any help would be greatly appreciated
// Enter your code below
let firstValue = 2
let secondValue = 4
let product = firstValue * secondValue
let output = "The product of 2 times 4, \(8)"
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! Your code will generate no errors in Xcode so it may be difficult to tell why exactly this is failing the challenge. The problem is in your output variable. You are hard-coding in the results. We need the output to reflect the values stored in firstValue and secondValue. Right now, those are set by the challenge and so they are hard-coded values. But imagine that you're developing some sort of calculator application. You would want those values to change to reflect what the user wants the first value and second value to be. Maybe this time they did put in 2 and 4. But maybe next time they'll put in 30 and 20. There's no way to know. Users are highly unpredictable.
So I'm going to give a hint here. You do need to use string interpolation but you need to print out the values stored in those variables. We do this with a backslash and a parentheses. It tells swift to put the value stored in that variable at that spot in the string.
var name = "Chris"
print("Hi there, \(name)")
You might try this in Xcode. You'll see that what prints to the console is "Hi there, Chris". I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck!
Chris H
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,368 PointsChris H
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,368 Pointsthx
Chris H
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,368 PointsChris H
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 1,368 PointsThank you again for your response finally had time to sit down and figure it out your clues really helped.