Declaring 'var correctGuess = false' at the beginning of the code, why do we need to lead with it?

Hi,

I'm still in the learning stage of JavaScript.. and also it took some time for me to understand this at first .. I'll try to calirfy things as I understand it and hope that helps.. and sorry for my bad English..

So,

First, It's important that know the purpose of the program you build.. that will help you understand the code you use..

Second, When you run JavaScript program, it changes continually. It goes in certain steps from up to down and every step could consist of some information and conditions and you want to keep track of these so you can control the workflow of the program and what it produces...

You store these information and conditions in variables.. why? so you can access and change their values at any time you need to..

var variableName = value;

In other meaning, the program status always changes depending on the information and conditions in it so you need to track how they work from start to end...

So for this example here:

Purpose - you want to check the status of the answer from user input whether it's true or false. ( Boolean Value ) and we need to keep track of that answer.

• Remember that every thing goes from up to down.

• When this program runs at first, the user hasn't entered any thing yet so we trait the answer value as false..

It's like when you start a game .. you start with score = 0 .. then it changes over time as you advance and accomplish certain tasks in the game. so you store the score value at start of the game in variable like this: var score = 0;

/*
- We store the program status at the start., we create variable called "correctGuess" to store 
the result of user answer.
- We give this variable value " false ".
- If the user input is right as the generated number, we can change it's value later on in 
the program to " true ".
*/

var correctGuess = false;

/*
- Then We generate random number from 1 to 6. We store the generated number in variable
called " randomNumber ".
*/

var randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 6 ) + 1;

/*
- We need to capture user input now. We store the answer in variable called " guess ".
*/

var guess = prompt('I am thinking of a number between 1 and 6. What is it?');

/*
- Here, We need to check if the user answer is equal to the generated number. So, in case
they are.. the " correctGuess " variable value changes to " true ".
*/

if (parseInt(guess) === randomNumber ) {
  correctGuess = true;
} 

/*
- So, if the " correctGuess " is " true ", a message is typed to the page
saying " You guessed the number! "

- If not, another message is typed to the page
saying "Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '."
*/

if ( correctGuess ) {
    document.write('<p>You guessed the number!</p>');
} else {
    document.write('<p>Sorry. The number was ' + randomNumber + '.</p>');
}