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JavaScript

Posted by rnas21
rnas21
2,703 Points

Conditional Statement Code Challenge

Within the Making Decisions with Conditional Statements section of JavaScript Basics, the Introducing Conditional Statements task part 2 of 3 keeps failing as it says part 1 of 3 fails when I run part 2.

My answer to part 1 which passes: var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");

My answer to part 2 which fails as I'm told part 1 has failed:

var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?"); if (answer.toUpperCase() === "JAVASCRIPT") { alert("You are correct."); }

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I've tried running the above task part 2 code in the Chrome console and it works so grateful for any thoughts as to what the issue may be.

rnas21
rnas21
2,703 Points

I've re-run the code with "answer.toUpperCase()" replaced with "answer" and it works however, I'm unclear as to why it's not working with the toUpperCase() method?

3 Answers

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points
Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

Hi, rnas21:

It seems you are correct, it does seems you've found a flaw with the current tests associated with this challenge. I'll mention Dave McFarland about this along with contacting

Thanks for being investigative enough to explore this way of solving the challenge for this bug to be found so that other students don't encounter it in the near future that may lead to unnecessary frustration to complete this particular stage of the course.

David ODonovan
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David ODonovan
Courses Plus Student 2,970 Points
David ODonovan
David ODonovan
Courses Plus Student 2,970 Points

bump! I am having the exact same problem so this section of the course has not been fixed: 'Making Decisions with Conditional Statements / Introducing Conditional Statements / Task 2'. My code runs fine in deve tools but not in the treehouse parser. Anyone have a solution? It would be great to pass this challenge so I can complete the course.. My code is as follows:

var answer = prompt('What is the best programming language?'); if (answer.toUpperCase() === "JAVASCRIPT"){ alert("You are correct"); }

David ODonovan
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David ODonovan
Courses Plus Student 2,970 Points
David ODonovan
David ODonovan
Courses Plus Student 2,970 Points

The solution turned out to be annoyingly simple, but a good lesson; I had compared using the following; if(answer ==='Javascript')

The code was not passed because the word 'Javascript' has to be written in camelCase with a capital S like so: JavaScript.

I guess this lesson is about attention to detail...