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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Arrays Methods: Part 1

Posted by efi domb
efi domb
9,569 Points

literal explanation

this is embarrassing, but i don't understand what required from me in this challenge (english is not my mother tongue). can someone expand that for me?

here is the challenge: "On line 18, use a method on the 'spareWords' to set 'firstWord' to be first word of the 'spareWords' array whilst simultaneously removing it from the beginning of the array."

thanks.

index.html 
<!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: Methods Part 1</h2>
    <script>
      var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"];
      var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"];
      firstWord = spareWords;
      var lastWord = spareWords;
      saying;
      saying;
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points
shezazr
shezazr
8,275 Points

var spareWords = ["The","chimney","sweep's","dog"]; var saying = ["quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy"]; firstWord = spareWords; var lastWord = spareWords;

so what they are saying is that fristWord = The (some how using a function) and then spareWOrds should now have = ["chimney","sweep's","dog"]; //removed The