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JavaScript JavaScript Basics Making Decisions in Your Code with Conditional Statements Write an 'if' Statement

monique champagne
monique champagne
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Posted by monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points

not sure why my answer is wrong-

cant figure out what im doing wrong here..

script.js 
const isAdmin = true;
const isStudent = false;
let message = "Welcome admin";
if ( isAdmin ) {
  console.log(message);
}

3 Answers

Heidi Fryzell
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Hi Monique,

The instructions say if the isAdmin variable is true, set the value of the message variable to "Welcome admin".

So inside the if statement is where you are going to set the value of the variable.

In your code you set the value of the variable message outside the if statement and you console logged the message inside the if statement.

You don't need to console log the message in this challenge.

const isAdmin = true;
const isStudent = false;
let message;

if (isAdmin){
  //assign variable here, you already declared it above with "let"
}

I hope this helps and happy coding!

monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points
monique champagne
monique champagne
761 Points

oh ok- i think i get it... would this be better?

const isAdmin = true;
const isStudent = false;
let message;
if ( isAdmin ) {
 message = "Welcome Admin!";
}

is the let message ok to just leave like it is? i would have thought it would be something like let message = " "; so it had some kind of blank to fill in... thanks so much for your help!

Heidi Fryzell
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Heidi Fryzell
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Yes, that would work, except one little thing. You have to match exactly what they ask for in the instructions.

So for the welcome admin message you can't add punctuation or capitalization. It has to be exactly how they did in the instructions

message = "Welcome admin";