Confused about the purpose of Guil's last step.

Hey no it's completely ok!

So in coding there is not a right or wrong way of doing things as long as you get what you want to work to well work. The DRY method or don't repeat yourself is a good rule of thumb to go by to save you time in coding, make your code easier to understand, and to make your code execute faster.

As far as this video goes I have to agree with you, I think the other way is better and I would have left it as each time you need a value in the RGB to call another randomvalue.

I think what Guil is trying to do in this section is show how code and specifically functions can be used in a number of different ways. So he is passing a function to a function then executing it inside. I don't see a point in this other then to show that it can be done.

Eventually (This is meant to excite you about coding not to stress you out) instead of for loops you can have a function that calls itself a certain number of times then will stop. This method is called recursion. Here is an example

//recursive function
function test (numberOfRounds){
    console.log(`this is the recursive function ${numberOfRounds}`)
    //this is where you would put the code you wanted to execute 

    //checks if it should stop the iteration
    if (numberOfRounds - 1 > 0){
    test(numberOfRounds - 1);
    }
}

//calls the test function and says to run it 5 times
test(5)

//does the same thing as the test function
for (let i = 5; i > 0; i--){
    console.log(`this is counting down ${i}`)
}

//standard for loop
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++){
    console.log(`this is counting up ${i} `)
}

The way the computer runs the test function is like this test(5) calls test(4) calls test(3) calls test(2) calls test(1) then executes all of them The function is calling itself and then stopping when it hits a certain threshold.

Coding is really neat and there are multiple ways of solving the same issue :)

I hope this helped!!