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This video covers one solution to the first part of the "Build a Quiz" challenge.
Multidimensional array snippet
const questions = [
['How many planets are in the Solar System?', '8'],
['How many continents are there?', '7'],
['How many legs does an insect have?', '6'],
['What year was JavaScript created?', '1995']
];
The return value of the prompt() method is always a string. If your question answers are numeric values, you'll need to convert the value of the response variable to a number, otherwise the condition will always evaluate to false.
The unary plus operator (+) provides a quick way of converting a string to a number. Place a plus symbol just before the response variable:
if ( +response === answer ) {
...
}
How'd you do in this challenge?
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If you got the quiz working, well done.
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If you didn't get everything that's okay.
0:03
These exercises are becoming more
challenging as you learn more JavaScript.
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Now, I'll show you how
I programmed my quiz.
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The first step is to create
an array of questions.
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Since I want to include a question and
an answer,
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it needs to be a two dimensional array.
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Each array inside the questions
array should contain two elements,
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a question and its answer.
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I'll add the first question and answer,
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then add three more sets of questions and
answers.
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You can copy these nested arrays from
the teacher's notes with this video.
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To keep things easier for now, I'm
writing all the answers as string values.
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I need to store and keep track of how many
questions the user answers correctly.
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So, I'll declare a variable
named correctAnswers
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to track correct answers and
initialize it to 0.
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I have an array of questions,
now it's time to ask them.
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I'll loop through the questions array,
display a question to the user, and
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check if they answered correctly.
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I'll use a for loop for this.
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This should look familiar by now.
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It creates a loop that runs as
many times as there are elements
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in the questions array.
1:30
Next, I'll reference the values
of each nested array and
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store them in local variables.
1:35
First, the question.
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I'm working with a multi
dimensional array.
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So I'll first access an element from the
outer questions array with questions [i].
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Then to access the question,
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I'll reference the first element of the
nested array, which is at the zero index.
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Next, I'll access the answer
which is at index
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position 1 with questions [i][1].
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Now, I'll display each question
to the user and get the response.
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I'll declare a variable named response and
assign it the prompt method.
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I'll pass the prompt method
the question to display,
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which is assigned to
the question variable.
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I'm not done yet, but I've written enough
code that I can at least test to make sure
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that it's displaying the questions.
2:32
I'll save the file and
preview index.html in the browser.
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All right, so far so good.
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Now, I can test if the response matches
the answer using a conditional statement.
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If the response matches the answer,
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the number assigned to the correct
answer's variable increments by 1.
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You could also use the increment operator
here to add 1 to the current value
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assigned to correct answers.
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Finally, I'll create the message
that will display on the page.
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I'll declare a new variable named html and
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assign it a template literal,
which I'll use to build the final string.
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I'll display the message as an h1 with
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the text You got $ {correctAnswers}
question(s) correct.
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Then, I'll set set the inner html property
of the main element to the html string.
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With document.querySelector
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('main).innerHTML = html.
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All right, I'll save my file and
test this in the browser.
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And good, the quiz asks questions and
keeps track of correct answers.
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Now that we have a working quiz program,
let's improve upon it.
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The program should also keep track of
the questions the user gets right and
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the ones they get wrong,
something like this.
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To do this, you can create two new arrays.
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One to keep track of the correctly
answered questions, and
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one to keep track of
the wrongly answered questions.
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You'll need to use one of the methods
you learned in this course for
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adding elements to an array.
4:47
After a user answers a question, depending
on whether they answered correctly,
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add the question to one of the arrays.
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In addition, you'll need a way to display
the values in the arrays as bulleted or
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numbered lists like this.
5:00
You've already created a function that
does just that earlier in the course.
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Up next, I'll go over my version
of the improved quiz program.
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