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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 1

Marcel Carey
Marcel Carey
2,890 Points
Posted by Marcel Carey
Marcel Carey
2,890 Points

Not getting the Wrong and right answers

let questions = [ ['How many Stars on the flag', 50], ['How many championships has the lakers won?', 10], ['How many terms can a president serve', 2] ] let answers = 0 let question let guess let html = '' let correctAnswers

function print(messages){ document.write(messages)

}

function trivia() { for(let i = 0; i < questions.length; i ++) { question = questions[i][0] answers = questions[i][1] guess = prompt(questions[i][0]) if (guess === answers){ correctAnswers += 1 } else if (guess !== answers) { correctAnswers == 0 } } }

trivia() html = You got this ${answers} correct alert(html)

Mark Casavantes
Mark Casavantes
10,619 Points
Mark Casavantes
Mark Casavantes
10,619 Points

You are missing ;]] after correctAnswers. There is an error or errors on your function trivia() line, but I cannot find it. Sorry, I am of limited help.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

For future questions, use Markdown formatting to preserve the appearance of the code, or share the entire workspace by making a snapshot and posting the link to it.

But assuming no errors are being concealed by the lack of formatting, this code seems to run properly. But some things I noticed:

  • a "print" function is defined to output to the page but it is never used
  • only the correct count is shown in an alert message
  • there is no code here that would identify which specific questions were right (or wrong)
  • the "else if" could be a plain "else" since it only tests for the opposite of the "if"
  • the code in the "else if" body is doing a comparison instead of an assignment
  • replacing the comparison with an assignment is probably not desirable as it would zero out the score
Marcel Carey
Marcel Carey
2,890 Points
Marcel Carey
Marcel Carey
2,890 Points 
let questions = [
    ['What does the F in FBI stand for?', 'federal'],
    ['In which country is a K2 present?', 'pakistan'],
    ['What NFL Quarterback has been to the most superbowls?', 'tom brady'],
    ['What is the name of the bear in Jungle Book?', 'baloo'],
    ['On a farm a what animal is called a kid ?', 'goat']
]
// I declare some variables
let userGuess 
let wrongAnswer = 0
let rightAnswer = 0
let question
let html  
let answers
// Created a function 
function print(message) {
    document.write(message)
}
// I created a for loop to iterate through the array
    for (let i = 0; i < questions.length; i += 1) {
        question = questions[i][0]
        answers = questions[i][1]
        userGuess = prompt(questions[i][0])
        if (userGuess.toLowerCase() === answers) {
            rightAnswer += 1
        } else {
            wrongAnswer += 1
        }


    }

    if(rightAnswer > 2) {
        alert('Good stuff bro ')
    } else {
        alert('You need more practice')
    }


html = `You got this many ${rightAnswer} right, and you got this many ${wrongAnswer} wrong. `
print(html)

So I went back and fixed some things, if there are any more suggestions I would love to hear them so that I can improve

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Looking good now! :+1:   (But you could remove the first level of indenting)