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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript Object Basics Filling Out the Play Method

William Tunna
William Tunna
2,946 Points
Posted by William Tunna
William Tunna
2,946 Points

Don't understand what I'm doing incorrectly here

I've been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I'm using the dot notation as asked, and creating a function to test if it's the player ones turn

object.js 
const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function() {
        if (player1.isTurn) {

    }
    }
}

1 Answer

Victor Mercier
Victor Mercier
14,667 Points

Hi, William, let us breakdown the problem:

The first task is that we need to do an if statement that will execute if the isTurn property of the object if true. The reason why your code is not working is that the challenge ask you to access the isTurn by dot notation and using the this keyword.

Here is my code:

const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
        // write code here.

      //Using the this keyword to refer to the current object
      if(this.isTurn){

      }

}

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