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Brian CI
28,971 PointsI don't understand the assignment
The variable 'thirdElementInArray' was supposed to be the third element in the array. Fix the code so it 'thirdElementInArray' is the actual third element in the array.
To me that says to do this:
var thirdElementInArray;
var myArray = ["sugar", "rush", thirdElementInArray, "fix", "it", 3.14, 42];
Doesn't make much sense becaues there is no value given for what should be thirdElementInArray. Also the error message "Remember array index always starts with zero", makes no sense. What does that have to do with anything?
5 Answers
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 PointsArray indexes begin with 0 is the most important part of the question. myArray indexes should be listed as:
myArray[0] = "sugar";
myArray[1] = "rush";
myArray[2] = thirdElementInArray
They want you to edit the line that reads: var thirdElementInArray = myArray[3] so that thirdElementArray is in the third spot in the array and not the fourth.
Brian CI
28,971 PointsYea but that doesn't work, that's what I tried.
What works is to assign the value of the third element in the array to thirdElementInArray.
I think what they should have said is "Assign the value of the the third element in the array to thirdElementInArray" instead of "The variable 'thirdElementInArray' was supposed to be the third element in the array." which to me sounds like either the code you provided or I provided but not what is the correct answer.
The correct answer was to just change the line to :
thirdElementInArray = myArray[2]
instead of
thirdElementInArray = myArray[3]
Brian CI
28,971 Pointsor not... after successfully passing task 1 with this and then without changing it and moving on to task 2 I now get this:
"On about line 18, set the 31st element in 'myArray' to the word 'treehouse'."
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title> JavaScript Foundations: Arrays</title>
<style>
html {
background: #FAFAFA;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>JavaScript Foundations</h1>
<h2>Arrays: Getting and Setting</h2>
<script>
var myArray = ["sugar", "rush", "fix", "it", 3.14, 42];
var thirdElementInArray = myArray[2];
var myArray[30] = "treehouse";
</script>
</body>
</html>
Brian CI
28,971 PointsOops I meant to post the error message:
Bummer! Was expecting 'thirdElementInArray' to be "fix" not "undefined"
christopher couret
10,297 Pointsintroduce the thirdElmentInArray as the 2 array because it starts from 0