I am stumped on the first task in this challenge how do I convert the strings in this function to a tuple?

Hello Spencer. I presume you are stuck in the 1/3 code challenge in the tuples section.

It should go like this: 1) before the curly braces we define what we are going to get, so we need to add: (language: String, greeting: String) 2) We need to change the return statement, from just return greeting to return language, greeting.

So final code would be:

func greeting(person: String) -> (language: String, greeting: String) {
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"

    return (greeting,language)
}

I hope this makes it clear

Hello Vittorio! Thank you for your answer. But i still can not understand my mistake. Here is my code.

func greeting(person: String) -> (language: String, greeting: String) { 
let language = "English" 
let greeting = "Hello \(person)" 
return (language,greeting) 
}
var result = greeting("Tom") 

It works fine in playground on my Mac, but i still get an error here. :( I did not forget to put backslash before (person) for interpolation.

Could you also help with the second task. I can not understand what does task want me to do. Look at my code:

func greeting(#person: String) -> (language: String, greeting: String) { let language = "English" let greeting = "Hello (person)"

return (greeting,language)

} var result = greeting(person:"Tom")

I declared a variable and asigned it to the tuple which returns after function works. But system still writes to me "Your result variable has the wrong value in it. Check the task instructions again." What is wrong?

Vittorio, thank you so much for help! Now its ok!

i stuck in third question, here is my code for print the language, but i still get an error

func greeting(person: String) -> (language: String,greeting: String) {
    let language = "English"
    let greeting = "Hello \(person)"

    return (greeting,language)
}

var result = (greeting: "Tom",language: "English")

println("\(result.language)")

any help?

println(result.1)

Check out around the 6:17 mark in the video on Tuples.

Hello Christopher.

It would pass 1/3 in both cases. The order does not really matter for the first code challenge.

It matters for the 2/3 instead as we return a tuple, so more than 1 value basically and we want them to be in the right order inside this tuple.

This is the reason why returning (greeting,language) or (language,greeting) makes a difference.

Vittorio