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Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project ReviewerI approached this with only adding one new variable. Is that good or bad?
I did this a lot differently to the rest of you guys. I didn't even think about storing other values into other variables to calculate this. I just went straight in to a new variable to calculate the values in the other variables that Dave created in the video. I am not sure if this is a bad thing or not? I mean, I can only see it being a bad thing if this program were to be future-proof, because it lacks other ways to get information due to other variables that don't exist. However, what do you guys think?
var secondsPerMin = 60;
var minsPerHour = 60;
var hoursPerDay = 24;
var daysPerWeek = 7;
var weeksPerYear = 52;
var secondsPerDay = secondsPerMin * minsPerHour * hoursPerDay;
document.write('<p>There are ' + secondsPerDay + ' seconds in a day</p>');
var yearsAlive = 28;
var secondsPerYearsAlive = secondsPerDay * daysPerWeek * weeksPerYear * yearsAlive;
document.write("<p>I've been alive for more than " + secondsPerYearsAlive + " seconds</p>");
Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project ReviewerHi Nasser,
Ah I didn't know any if that great information you have provided! That is really good to know! My main concern was just that I felt that maybe since everyone else had a similar scope of practice that I wasn't on the same page/learning as everyone else. However thanks for that! :)
1 Answer
Victor Warner
1,882 PointsI did the math wrong dviding first and incuding secondsperMin and minsPerHour. This answer helped me correct it. thank You.
Nasser Al Betar
3,711 PointsNasser Al Betar
3,711 PointsHello Jamie, as I understand declaring variables allocates a portion of memory for them to be stored, so logically, the more variables declared, the more memory used.
Considering that the task was specific for the output required, there shouldn't be a concern about future-proofing, and you can see that your approach is a positive way of site optimization.