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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Tracking Multiple Items with Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge, Part 2

Alvis Chen
Alvis Chen
4,548 Points

Track Correct answers and wrong answers.

For arrays challengevar questions = [ ['How many states are in the United States?', 50], ['How many continents are there?', 7], ['How many legs does an insect have?', 6] ]; var correctAnswers = 0; var question; var answer; var response; var html; var correct=[]; var wrong=[];

function print(message) { var outputDiv =document.getElementById('output'); outputDiv.innerHTML=message; } function buildList(arr){ var listHTML ="<ol>"; for( var i = 1;i< arr.length;i+=1){ listHTML += '<li>' + arr[i] + '</li>'; } listHTML +='</ol>'; return listHTML; }

for (var i = 0; i < questions.length; i += 1) { question = questions[i][0]; answer = questions[i][1]; response = prompt(question); response = parseInt(response); if (response === answer) { correctAnswers += 1; correct.push(question); }else{wrong.push(question);}

}

html = "You got " + correctAnswers + " question(s) right." html += "<h2>you got these questions correct:</h2>"; html += buildList(correct); html+= "<h2>You got these questions wrong:</h2>"; html += buildList(wrong); print(html);

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

In your "buildList" function, you start your loop out with "for (var i = 1; ...". Since array indices start with 0, using a 1 here will cause the first item to be skipped.

To display all items, start "i" out with 0.