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iOS Objective-C Basics (Retired) Foundation Framework NSDictionary

Posted by Tossy Kelly
Tossy Kelly
Courses Plus Student 2,069 Points

NSDictionary Challenge task1

The challenge states: Declare an NSDictionary variable named 'album'. Assign the following key/pairs to it: "title" - "Abbey Road", "artist" - "The Beatles".

I entered the following solutions:

  1. NSDictionary *album = @{@"title":@"Abbey Road",@"artist":@"The Beatles"};
  2. NSDictionary *album = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:@"title",@"Abbey Road",@"artist",@"The Beatles", nil];

however, for both the above attempts the system returned the message: Bummer! your album dictionary has no values.

What am I doing wrong?

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I tried your first line of code and passed fine using

NSDictionary *album = @{@"title":@"Abbey Road",@"artist":@"The Beatles"};

so im not sure what was wrong but it should have worked

however there is an error in the second way you tried. If you use that method the values come before they keys like so:

NSDictionary *album = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Abbey Road",@"title",@"The Beatles", @"artist", nil];