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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Working with Strings Combine and Manipulate Strings

Posted by kdouglas
kdouglas
218 Points

I'm at the Challenge Task 1 of 3 in the JavaScript lesson: app.js "Assign your first and last name blah blah. HELP!!!

It's not actually clear on what is needed to be done. Am I to have a question in prompt? Am I to capture info, combine strings... What? In the videos prior to this doesn't explain in details what this is about...

let firstName can be const firstName let lastName can be const lastName I can have it prompt to console.log or alert

let role (not sure what this is) but I can string firstName + lastName

Now I can't get past this area

app.js 
let firstName (Guil);
let lastName (Something);
let role = 'developer';

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

Hi Gypsy!

This passes the first challenge:

let firstName = 'Gypsy' ;
let lastName = 'Miles';
let role = 'developer';

This passes the second challenge:

let firstName = 'Gypsy' ;
let lastName = 'Miles';
let role = 'developer';

let msg = firstName + " " + lastName + ": " + role;

This passes the third challenge:

let firstName = 'Gypsy' ;
let lastName = 'Miles';
let role = 'developer';

let msg = firstName + " " + lastName + ": " + role.toUpperCase();

This would also work for the last line (using template literals):

let msg = `${firstName} ${lastName}: ${role.toUpperCase()}`;

(Using ES6 syntax)

(Also please notice the backticks used in the last line of code)

More info:

https://masteringjs.io/tutorials/fundamentals/string-concat

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals

https://css-tricks.com/template-literals/

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!