Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, Ashley Scott :

I finally found the challenge, and the following is the correct answer that'll I'll break it down for you:

 var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
      var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];
      var firstWord = spareWords.shift();
      var lastWord = spareWords.pop();
      saying.unshift(firstWord);
      saying.push(lastWord);

The challenge initially asks you to get and remove at the same time the first item in saying to be assigned to firstWord. It then asks you to get and remove the last item in the array at the same time after doing that:

var firstWord = spareWord.shift(); 
var lastWord = spareWord.pop();

Now the challenge is asking you to insert at the beginning of saying array the item stored in firstWord. To do that in JavaScript you use the unshift method that prepends. You must pass in explicitly firstWorld because what's asked is a variable not a new string not contained in a variable:

saying.unshift(firstWord); 

From there you're asked to add the string contained in the lastWord variable at the end of the saying array. To do that, you use the push() method.

saying.push(lastWord); 

With these things done. You should be able to pass the challenge just fine. Does my explanation clear things up for you, or would you like me to explain this in more detail?

Hi, Ashley:

I'll be more than happy to help you. What problem is this for what course?

Assuming your firstword variable is supposed to take the firstword of spareWords to then prepend to the saying array, currently you're making your firstword variable have the first and second items of the spareWords array, and then prepending to spareWords yet again with nothing (wouldn't be surprised that's an error).

You're never actually prepending anything to the saying array.

var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps","over", "lazy"];
var firstWord = spareWords.shift(); // assigns  "The" to firstWord with the word removed from spareWords 
var firstWord = spareWords.shift(); // assigns "chimney" to firstWord  with the word also removed from spareWords 
var firstWord = spareWords.unshift(); // you're prepending nothing (???) to spareWords. 

var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];
var firstWord = spareWords.shift();
var lastWord = spareWords.pop();
var firstwor = saying.unshift;
      saying;

This what i have and it keeps saying:

Bummer! You're missing the 'unshift' method and the 'firstWord' variable.

What am I doing wrong?

Based on the code sample you've provided, you've misspelled firstWord, you didn't actually call unshift on the saying variable, and left saying by its lonesome.

As a result, the code challenge is correctly informing you of your mistakes.