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JavaScript JavaScript Foundations Arrays Methods: Part 3

Posted by justin moen
justin moen
Courses Plus Student 483 Points

this is a bad sentence

On line 18, set the variable 'saying' to the concatenation of the 'first' and 'second' arrays with the word "dog".

poor english

Rachman Walker
Rachman Walker
12,517 Points

I wholly agree. Many of the sentences in the JavaScript Foundation challenge questions are poorly-written and [unintentionally] confuse rather than enlighten.

2 Answers

Michael Wiss
Michael Wiss
19,233 Points
Michael Wiss
Michael Wiss
19,233 Points

Ha! Maybe Ruby would make more sense:

"The basic purpose of launching Ruby was to make it easy for humans to interact with machines and understand codes. Yukihiro Matsumoto, the father of Ruby, insists that Ruby was designed for programmer productivity and not for machine optimization.

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, “By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something.” They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves. – Yukihiro Matsumoto"

Rachman Walker
Rachman Walker
12,517 Points

x = "I concur!" puts x

stephen grider
stephen grider
1,853 Points
stephen grider
stephen grider
1,853 Points

Justin-

The question is asking you to do the following: (note this is pseudocode)

saying = concatenation( first, second, "dog");

In other words, concat the array "first" to the array "second". Then, concat "dog". So, if my array "first" was [1,2,3] and my array "second" was [4,5,6], I would expect the result to read [1,2,3,4,5,6, "dog"].