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Gabriel E
8,916 PointsHow to randomly cycle through an array?
Hi all!
I'm working on a FreeCodeCamp challenge as well as Treehouse right now. It's called the Random Quote Machine. When I click a button, it makes a new quote appear. I have the basic markup and styling, but some functionality is giving me trouble. I have it so far, where if I click the button, some text pops up through jQuery, but not one of the random quotes in my array. (I'm allowed to use an array or API for this.) What I need to do next, is, when I click a button, have one of my quotes in the array appear. I logged this to the console, but it is returning 'undefined'. Please DO NOT give me a direct solution, but would a good hint be out there? Just a little stuck and frustrated.
Thanks a lot, ~ G
1 Answer
Micah Murray
6,913 PointsI'll give you one hint, try generating a random number inclusively between the lower and upper limit of your array size.
Gabriel E
8,916 PointsGabriel E
8,916 PointsThanks Micah Murray! I think I'm getting it a bit more now. I'm just not sure how to define the min and max values. Should I post a link to the pen so you can see if you'd like?
Micah Murray
6,913 PointsMicah Murray
6,913 PointsSure Gabriel, that would be fine.
Gabriel E
8,916 PointsGabriel E
8,916 Pointshttp://codepen.io/xGabey/pen/YpOPXo?editors=0011
thanks again.
Micah Murray
6,913 PointsMicah Murray
6,913 PointsI had a look at your code and it looks good so far. However, you should use a function for getting the random number and for getting the quote. Also, there is a problem with your random number code.
Gabriel E
8,916 PointsGabriel E
8,916 PointsOk, that's what I thought. I will be able to figure the rest out for myself if I can only figure this out: just how to print out my first quote to the page. Forget about the random factor for now. How come that last line isn't printing, the one that has the .html method?
Micah Murray
6,913 PointsMicah Murray
6,913 PointsIt is printing at least as far as I can see. But Its not printing the quote for two reasons. First, the variable that stores the quote to be displayed is commented out. Secondly, once you uncomment that line the random number code needs to be fixed.