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Wilson Parks
3,813 PointsFor the doWhileLoops solution demonstration, Is there a reason that there were no semi-colons in the solutions?...
I noticed that when the instructor showed the solutions, there were no semi-colons used to break up statements in the doWhileLoops Solutions.
Also, I personally never got the doWhileLoops.js to output correctly in the console. It just either gave me errors or just outputted 0.
for example:
// 1. Write a while loop to build a string of numbers from 0 to 4,
// separated by spaces, and store the string in the variable text.
print('1st Loop:');
text = '';
// Write 1st loop here: i = 0; do { text += i += ' '; i += 1; } while (i <= 4);
print(text); // Should print 0 1 2 3 4...
It outputted 0 in the console for me.
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsSemicolons are optional at the end of a line, but it is considered a "best practice" to include them. The code shown is valid, but it could have been better.
And you have a syntax error in this statement:
text += i += ' '; // <-- there is an extra = on this line
text += i + ' '; // fixed
kate70
3,078 PointsSemicolons are considered 'best practice' and TeamTreeHouse could have included them :) I've noticed it as well.