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Gary Christie
5,151 PointsHaving problems with this Challenge
The Challenge question is: On line 18, use a method on the 'spareWords' to set 'firstWord' to be first word of the 'spareWords' array whilst simultaneously removing it from the beginning of the array.
<script> var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"]; var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"]; var firstWord = spareWords; var lastWord = spareWords; saying; saying; </script>
5 Answers
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 PointsspareWords.shift();
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 PointsHi Gary,
Sometimes the error message can be very helpful, as is the case for this challenge. After running the non-working code, it suggested the method to use. Hope this helps!
Kim Cowart
32,918 PointsAs I read it, it seems to suggest using BOTH methods shift and unshift simultaneously. The question could have been expressed more simply by saying 'remove the first element...'. The methods themselves are already confusing with their naming conventions.
Gary Christie
5,151 PointsI used the shift method and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. This is what I am putting in: var firstWord = spareWords.unshift("firstWords"). Obviously I know I'm doing something wrong, but what. I been at for 30 mins going nuts here
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Gary,
In your code you're using the unshift method but you should be using the shift method. It does not take any arguments.
It will remove the first element from the array and also return that value.
Yele X.
5,537 PointsIf it makes you feel better, I struggled with some of the challenges in this section that could be worded more clearly. Several of these challenges have been made by someone that assumed people taking it would have slightly more knowledge than a complete beginner.
Kim Cowart
32,918 Pointsagreed