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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements The Conditional Challenge

Ben Schroeder
Ben Schroeder
22,818 Points
Posted by Ben Schroeder
Ben Schroeder
22,818 Points

Why does the user's score on this quiz always end up at 0?

Regardless of whether or not I put in the correct answer, I always end up with a score of 0 and no crown.

var score = 0;

var answer1 = prompt("What is 1 + 1?");
var answer2 = prompt("What is 3 + 6?");
var answer3 = prompt("What is 2 + 2?");
var answer4 = prompt("What is 10 + 10?");
var answer5 = prompt("What is 5 + 9?");

if(answer1 === parseInt(2)){
  score += 1;
}
if(answer2 === parseInt(9)){
  score += 1;
}
if(answer3 === parseInt(4)){
  score += 1;
}
if(answer4 === parseInt(20)){
  score += 1;
}
if(answer5 === parseInt(14)){
  score += 1;
}

document.write("<p>Out of 5 questions, you got <strong>" + score + "</strong> correct.</p>")

if(score === 5){
  document.write("<p>Congratulations! You get the gold crown.</p>");
} else if (score === 4 || score === 3){
  document.write("<p>Nice. You get the silver crown.</p>");
} else if (score === 2 || score === 1){
  document.write("<p>Okay. You got the bronze crown.</p>");
} else {
  document.write("<p>No crown for you!</p>");
}

2 Answers

Ben Schroeder
Ben Schroeder
22,818 Points
Ben Schroeder
Ben Schroeder
22,818 Points

And, of course, I managed to figure it out as soon as I posted this question! That's how it works, I suppose.

This is the code I should have been using to determine the score:

if(parseInt(answer1) === 2){
  score += 1;
}
if(parseInt(answer2) === 9){
  score += 1;
}
if(parseInt(answer3) === 4){
  score += 1;
}
if(parseInt(answer4) === 20){
  score += 1;
}
if(parseInt(answer5) === 14){
  score += 1;
}
Colton Ehrman
PLUS
Colton Ehrman
Courses Plus Student 5,859 Points
Colton Ehrman
Colton Ehrman
Courses Plus Student 5,859 Points

Yeah if you ever get stuck on something always rubber duck it before doing anything else... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging