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shanekillian
Courses Plus Student 906 PointsDifference between constant and variable in this context.
I'm wondering if this is a bug, I've posted about it previously but the response solutions do not work in the exercise.
If you try this exercise and create a constant with the dictionary as requested and then go to the next exercise (which builds on this), it simply will not work.
There is a working solution of course - and that is to make the constant a variable (for the dictionary).
Does this work as a constant for anyone?
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Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsThe challenge that you are linking from, I think you may be misunderstanding the 2nd Task. You're not actually building on the constant created in Task one. The challenge wants you create a new constant and assign a value pulled from the dictionary created prior.
So, the completed code for the second task is as follows:
let currencies = ["US": "Dollar", "UK": "Pound", "JP": "Yen"]
let ukCurrency = currencies["UK"]
Have a look and see if it makes sense. Task one creates the Dictionary and Task two pulls a value from it using a Key.
