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JavaScript

Posted by Ryan Duncan
Ryan Duncan
7,146 Points

Running this JavaScript crashes my browser... Any idea why?

I am in the middle of a JavaScript course and am following along in workspaces. However, I have noticed throughout the view videos I have done my browser seems to be running slow whenever I run the javascript. When I run the following code, the browser will freeze up and I have to close it out and restart. Is there something in the code that is making it do that?

var upper = 10000;
var randomNumber = getRandomNumber;
var guess;
var attempts = 0;

function getRandomNumber(upper) {
  return Math.floor( Math.random() * upper ) + 1;
}

while ( guess !== randomNumber) {
   guess = getRandomNumber(upper);
   attempts += 1;
}
document.write("<p> The Random Number was: " + randomNumber +"</p>");
document.write("<p> It took the computer " + attempts + " attempts to get it right.</p>");

1 Answer

vincent schneider
vincent schneider
3,762 Points
vincent schneider
vincent schneider
3,762 Points

try with this solution to see if it freezes again :

var upper = 10000;
var randomNumber = getRandomNumber;
var guess = 0;
var attempts = 0;

function getRandomNumber() {
  return Math.floor( Math.random() * upper ) + 1;
}

while ( guess !== randomNumber()) {
   guess = getRandomNumber(upper);
   attempts += 1;
}
document.write("<p> The Random Number was: " + randomNumber() +"</p>");
document.write("<p> It took the computer " + attempts + " attempts to get it right.</p>");
Ryan Duncan
Ryan Duncan
7,146 Points

Unfortunately, that did not work either. It's still doing the same thing.