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JavaScript JavaScript Arrays Multidimensional Arrays Build a Quiz Challenge – One Solution

Erin White
Erin White
2,383 Points
Posted by Erin White
Erin White
2,383 Points

Why can't I use a while loop for this challenge?

const questions = [
  ["What is your name?", "Erin"]
  ["What color is the sky?", "Blue"]
   ];

let correctAnswers = 0;

while (correctAnswers < questions.length) {
  let question = questions[correctAnswers][0];
  let answers = questions[correctAnswers][1];
  let askQuestion = prompt(question);
  correctAnswers++;
}

I'm writing it this way to bypass the use of the "i" counter or for loop to ensure that I understand how it works without using "i" counter or a for loop as all loop methods(?) are theoretically interchangeable. Otherwise, I'd just be copying Guil's solution without understanding fully what I'm doing.

If you run the code in the console, it throws an error saying that index position "0" in questions[0][0] isn't defined, but obviously it is as the first question in the array "questions".

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks!!!!

Anastasios Poursaitedes
Anastasios Poursaitedes
10,491 Points

You can use whichever loop you like(either a while, do while, for, for of ). But it seems to me that this particular loop that you wrote is ambiguous, especially the correctAnswers variable. Its name suggests that it will hold the number of correct answers but you use it as a counter for the while loop.

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Erin White! The problem here is actually a very tiny error in the initial nested array that you set up. Namely, it's missing a comma between the nested arrays so questions isn't getting properly defined.

You wrote this:

const questions = [
  ["What is your name?", "Erin"]
  ["What color is the sky?", "Blue"]
   ];

But you meant to write:

const questions = [
  ["What is your name?", "Erin"],  // note the comma at the end here
  ["What color is the sky?", "Blue"]
   ];

Hope this helps! :sparkles: