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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Introducing Conditional Statements

sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points
Posted by sami thakur
sami thakur
970 Points

i was doing the 2nd task of this challenge, and everytime i did it, it said the first task isnt working, please help

the title is pretty much the whole question

app.js 
var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if (answer.toUpperCase === JAVASCRIPT){
alert("You are Correct");
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points
Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hi there,

You have the right idea - to make the code work in general, you just need some quotes, single or double, around JAVASCRIPT, since it's a string. I noticed the challenge still fails if you do that, though. What you've done here, converting to uppercase, is a good practice in an actual program (and what they do in the videos if I remember correctly), because it's more flexible for the user. However, this challenge asks specifically for you to compare to the string 'JavaScript', which means it's going to be picky here - you need to remove the .toUpperCase and make the string you compare to 'JavaScript' exactly - then it should pass.

Again, what you did with the uppercase conversion is generally something you want to do in your programs - the challenge is just asking for something specific :)

Final code should look something like:

var answer = prompt("What is the best programming language?");
if (answer === 'JavaScript'){
  alert("You are Correct");
}