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JavaScript Introduction to Programming Control Structures Loops

Posted by gyatmnucla
gyatmnucla
7,618 Points

FizzBuzz extracredit code working ?

Hey everyone, I was just wondering why this code doesn't work :

for (var counter = 100; counter; counter = counter -1) {
 if (counter % 5 == 0) {
   console.log("Buzz");
 }
 else if (counter % 3 == 0 && counter % 5 == 0) {
   console.log("FizzBuzz");
 }
 else if (counter % 3 == 0) {
   console.log("fizz");
 }
 else {
   console.log(counter);
 }
}

and this one does

for (var counter = 100; counter; counter = counter -1) {
 if (counter % 3 == 0 && counter % 5 == 0) {
   console.log("FizzBuzz");
 }
 else if (counter % 5 == 0) {
   console.log("Buzz");
 }
 else if (counter % 3 == 0) {
   console.log("fizz");
 }
 else {
   console.log(counter);
 }
}

Isn't it the same, if I put the && in the if or in the else if ?

1 Answer

Mitchell Etter
Mitchell Etter
8,603 Points

The two part requirement has to come first because they will be evaluated in order. In the first example, if the counter is divisible by 5, the IF statement is being evaluated before the ELSE IF statement gets a chance and then the loop continues.

Hope that makes sense to you, let me know if you need it explained further.