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Arjun Parashar
Courses Plus Student 2,150 PointsWhat am I doing wrong here? I can't figure out my mistake.
I am not able to figure out my mistake and I am getting a bummer. Help me out.
var todo = ["Learn Swift","Build App","Deploy App"]
3 Answers
David Lin
35,864 PointsWhat you have looks correct. My hunch is there's something wrong with Treehouse's grading system.
Tobias Meier
6,017 Pointsvar todo: [String]
tells Swift that your variable todo is an array of strings.
var todo = ["Learn Swift","Build App","Deploy App"]
tells Swift that todo is an array with the strings "Learn Swift","Build App" and "Deploy App" as its elements aka an array of strings.
Back when I perused teamtreehouse on a very intensive daily basis, I used to run into this kind of problem quite a lot.
Culprit is how the backend compares your solution to the "right" one.
I played around a lot and usually the checks are result based. Sometimes there seem to be shortcuts in place which throw these kind of errors.
Don't let this dishearten you! Take it as a challenge to tinker with your code to find "their" solution as this often gives you insights you otherwise would not achieve!
hth and a pleasant weekend to all!
jc laurent
6,351 Pointsyep, swift will automatically generate an Array
Tobias Meier
6,017 PointsY .. No!
Swift will generate an array - and of a certain type - if it is presented with one.
e.g.:
var myArray = ["my first string entry in my array","my second string entry in my array"]
If you do:
var myArray = {"my bad":"don't know better"}
Take a guess what happens.
Julien riera
14,665 PointsJulien riera
14,665 PointsI would have written :
var todo: [String] = ["Learn Swift", "Build App", "Deploy App"]But doesn't work either, while it's what I usualy do on Xcode.