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Prakhar Patwa
11,260 PointsRegarding while loop
function randomNumber(upper) {
return Math.floor( Math.random() * upper ) + 1;
}
var counter = 0;
var number = prompt("enter the number");
if(isNaN(number)){
document.write("you entered the string");
}else{
while(counter < 10){
var randNum = randomNumber(number) ;
document.write(randNum + " ");
counter++;
}
}
it showing the o/p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1....... i am not getting the solution
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 PointsIt has been a while since I did this, but your "while" statement is incorrect. The proper format from MDN is:
var i = 0; do { i += 1; console.log(i); } while (i < 5);
Assuming the rest of the code is correct, you should change it as follows to make a properly formatted Do While loop.
} else { do { var randNum = randomNumber(number); document.write(randNum + " "); counter++; while (counter < 10);
These code challenges are very picky. You wrote "you entered the string". I suspect the directions were to write "you entered a string". The difference between the string and a string can make you fail the code challenges even though the code is still correct.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/do...while
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsTed Sumner, a do ... while loop is different (but similar) from the while loop in JavaScript. The do ... while loop runs the code before checking the conditional, the while loop checks the conditional first.
1 Answer
Seab Jackson
5,692 PointsDid you manage to solve this problem? I was wondering if the reason it didn't work was because even if the user enters a number in the prompt it is recorded as a string. Perhaps you needed to use parseInt to covert the prompt to an integer.
Nevertheless, I ran your code and it worked just fine. I think it is possible that the random numbers could have just been what you saw, though an admittedly rare occurence.
Chris Higgins
6,813 PointsChris Higgins
6,813 PointsI put your code in my workspace as i dident really see anything wrong with it and it seem to do what you want it to do. Displays 10 numbers up to and and including the number you posted in the prompt.