Treehouse | Community | Solution: Charging Fines to Patrons

🤑 Join the Treehouse affiliate program and earn 25% commission!

Join our Live Career-Building Workshop: Launch Your Tech-Adjacent Career! ⭐ Register here!

🌟 Dreaming of a bright future? 🎓 Ask about the Treehouse Scholarship program! 🚀

Curious which AI tools Treehouse developers love? ⚙️ Check them out!

🫡 Treehouse for Military offers discounts to Veterans, service members and their families!

Newest
- Newest
- Active
- Unanswered
- Featured
All Topics

Samuel Kleos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,581 Points
Confusion. . . 😵‍💫 Why is my daysOverDue property negative?

Posted February 28, 2023 9:56pm by Samuel Kleos

Samuel Kleos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,581 Points
1 Answer
Samuel Kleos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,581 Points
Why can't the .setDate() method chain another method?

Posted February 28, 2023 7:53am by Samuel Kleos

Samuel Kleos
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 13,581 Points
1 Answer
Seth Missiaen
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,652 Points
Is the content inside "this.patrons.filter()" an arrow function?

Posted March 23, 2022 1:56pm by Seth Missiaen

Seth Missiaen
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,652 Points
1 Answer
Xun Huang
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,515 Points
WHY 'patron.balance += this.dailyFine * daysLate' ???

Posted March 3, 2022 7:42pm by Xun Huang

Xun Huang
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,515 Points
1 Answer
Johannes Deutsch
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,684 Points
now

Posted November 26, 2021 3:45pm by Johannes Deutsch

Johannes Deutsch
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,684 Points
2 Answers
Jonathan Drake
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,668 Points
How is the setter method getting its argument?

Posted July 29, 2021 8:23am by Jonathan Drake

Jonathan Drake
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,668 Points
3 Answers
Jonathan Guerrero
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,245 Points
When should you use a setter and when should you use a method?

Posted May 12, 2021 5:54pm by Jonathan Guerrero

Jonathan Guerrero
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,245 Points
1 Answer
Joseph Bertino
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points
checkOut() missing from Patron class in workspace.

Posted January 4, 2021 3:57pm by Joseph Bertino

Joseph Bertino
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points
0 Answers
Soheb Vahora
9,229 Points
Why is it book.out = true, instead of book.out(true)?

Posted November 9, 2020 8:15pm by Soheb Vahora

Soheb Vahora
9,229 Points
1 Answer
Janelle Mackenzie
7,510 Points
Help with the newDueDate method

Posted October 22, 2020 12:59pm by Janelle Mackenzie

Janelle Mackenzie
7,510 Points
3 Answers
James Crosslin
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 16,882 Points
My chargeFines solution took a more long term view of fines. I used a setInterval to automatically charge Patrons

Posted October 16, 2020 8:42pm by James Crosslin

James Crosslin
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 16,882 Points
0 Answers
anmo20
6,470 Points
const dateDiff = new Date(now - patron.currentBook.dueDate); is producing a date in 1970

Posted October 6, 2020 3:03am by anmo20

anmo20
6,470 Points
1 Answer
Doron Geyer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,897 Points
Explanation of the date format given for the challenge.

Posted August 27, 2020 8:44am by Doron Geyer

Doron Geyer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,897 Points
1 Answer
Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points
Code is wrong. If you make the due date to say -32 days, the fines get smaller. We shouldn 't have used getDate()

Posted August 18, 2020 5:42pm by Farid Lavizadeh

Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points
1 Answer
Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points
DayLate can't be correct.

Posted August 18, 2020 5:28pm by Farid Lavizadeh

Farid Lavizadeh
12,006 Points
3 Answers
Brendan Moran
14,052 Points
Is it ok to use a method to get a state *IF* I never, ever want to set that state?

Posted July 28, 2020 2:36pm by Brendan Moran

Brendan Moran
14,052 Points
1 Answer
Mikel Cati
8,045 Points
!set and get!

Posted June 12, 2020 7:30pm by Mikel Cati

Mikel Cati
8,045 Points
1 Answer
Tomasz Grodzki
8,130 Points
Why there's no change in dueDate, book and currentBook properties?

Posted May 5, 2020 7:00pm by Tomasz Grodzki

Tomasz Grodzki
8,130 Points
1 Answer
Mohamad Faiz Khairi Mohd Nazri
5,668 Points
My chargeFines method using for loops

Posted April 24, 2020 10:28am by Mohamad Faiz Khairi Mohd Nazri

Mohamad Faiz Khairi Mohd Nazri
5,668 Points
1 Answer
Faraz Khalid
4,077 Points
Practice Object Interaction

Posted April 21, 2020 2:40am by Faraz Khalid

Faraz Khalid
4,077 Points
1 Answer
PLUS

Andrew Reynolds
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 23,333 Points
Question in regards to saving a date to a variable

Posted March 10, 2020 11:48pm by Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 23,333 Points
1 Answer
Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points
My chargeFines method

Posted December 1, 2019 1:34am by Michael Cook

Michael Cook
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 28,975 Points
1 Answer
Okle Odai
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,816 Points
How do I approach this challenge? My attempt was completely off from the actual solution.

Posted November 22, 2019 9:14pm by Okle Odai

Okle Odai
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,816 Points
1 Answer
fairest
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,303 Points
Why would you first let us figure the chargeFines() function if the solution isn't really a solution?

Posted November 16, 2019 4:03am by fairest

fairest
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,303 Points
0 Answers
Dan Ingenthron
8,769 Points
Is the code meant to charge the same fine for each day the book is late?

Posted November 16, 2019 12:23am by Dan Ingenthron

Dan Ingenthron
8,769 Points
1 Answer
Anton Kilk
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,256 Points
I run this code and keep getting 1.5 as dailyFine. Not 1.4 as shown in explanation and as should be for 14 days.

Posted October 15, 2019 10:38am by Anton Kilk

Anton Kilk
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,256 Points
6 Answers
<noob />
17,062 Points
Question about the video

Posted August 6, 2019 10:21pm by <noob />

<noob />
17,062 Points
0 Answers
Juneau Lim
13,362 Points
Where can I learn/practice functions like filter?

Posted May 23, 2019 11:50am by Juneau Lim

Juneau Lim
13,362 Points
2 Answers
Muhammad Umar
7,817 Points
Using Console.log on const dateDiff gives the date Wed Jan 14 1970 18:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) ??

Posted May 14, 2019 1:22pm by Muhammad Umar

Muhammad Umar
7,817 Points
2 Answers
Muhammad Umar
7,817 Points
Help: chargeFines() What would happen if this method was called more than once while a patron had the same book overdue?

Posted April 21, 2019 5:34pm by Muhammad Umar

Muhammad Umar
7,817 Points
4 Answers

Prev Page 1 of 2 Next

Posting to the forum is only allowed for members with active accounts.
Please sign in or sign up to post.