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JavaScript

Posted by Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

Whats wrong with my code?

The newYork variable contains an object, but the population is wrong. Add a line of code that sets the population property to 8.406e6. Don't change the original declaration of the object.

var newYork = {
  population: 100, 
  latitude: '40.7127 N',
  longitude: '74.0059 W'
};

newYork.population = 8.406e6
newYork.country = USA

I can't click the "get help" button in the quiz for some reason.

Seth

4 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

Hey Seth,

you almost got it right but the value of the country property should be a string and you didn't put it in quotes.

So it should look like this:

var newYork = {
  population: 100, 
  latitude: '40.7127 N',
  longitude: '74.0059 W'
};

newYork.population = 8.406e6;
newYork.country = 'USA';
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

Tobias Helmrich I laughed SO hard and felt SO dumb when I read this, thank you SOOO much man!

Seth

James Bradd
James Bradd
4,597 Points

I find that's the majority of my troubleshooting. Spent two hours once to figure out I misspelled "walking" as "waking" in a package name. This is the benefit of having fresh eyes look at your code!

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

Oh funny how the little things in code make the biggest problems James Bradd

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,604 Points

Haha, no problem! I agree with James, it happened to me so many times before that some small mistake broke my whole code but I had a tunnel vision and didn't notice it and I felt so stupid afterwards. But I guess that's just a part of coding. :)

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

Tobias Helmrich lol Indeed! One major attribute that seems to make a good programmer is lots and lots of "Suffering". xD

Alicia Taylor
Alicia Taylor
4,788 Points
Alicia Taylor
Alicia Taylor
4,788 Points

You are assigning a new value that is a string (hint).