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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Data Using Objects Access and Set Object Properties

Posted by Qasim Rashad
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Qasim Rashad
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,837 Points

Seeking help

I've been having difficulties passing this task for a few hours, I watch the videos and still confuse on the tasks. On task 1 it tells me to not change anything in the object, so I created a second "population" and place the value in it and passed it but its not the "correct" way of doing it, so for task 2 It tells me to put country and a = sign to USA nothing else and I did but says tasks 1 is not passing now, can someone break it down for me on how to complete this tasks?

script.js 
var newYork = {
  population: 100, 
  latitude: '40.7127 N',
  longitude: '74.0059 W',

};
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript Objects</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

Without giving a spoiler, here's a generic example. Let's say you had an object named "person" that had properties for "name" and "age":

var person = {
    name = "Joe",
    age = 24
};

Now, without changing the original definition, let's update this person's age to be 25:

person.age = 25;

Then we want to give the person a new property which is their brand of car:

person.car = "Honda";

Make sense now?

Qasim Rashad
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Qasim Rashad
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,837 Points

Ok it making sense now, so I put “newYork.population = 8.406e6” even though it says error still it’s the correct set up. So is it because I’m missing something small?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,670 Points

When I paste that line in to task 1, it passes. Are you still having trouble?

Hirenkumar Patel
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Hirenkumar Patel
Courses Plus Student 9,464 Points
Hirenkumar Patel
Hirenkumar Patel
Courses Plus Student 9,464 Points

newYork.population = 8.406e6;