Today's Progress: I continued working Intermediate Algorithm Scripting challenges on freeCodeCamp; 43% complete
Thoughts: Now that I'm past the regular expressions challenges my progress has been faster and less frustrating. However, I will still need to learn more about regular expressions and plan to write a blog post about the topic so I can understand it on a deeper level.
Overall, today's session was a productive study session, but I did need to consult the solution because my script wasn't working. At first, I thought my logic statement was incorrect so I tried it a few different ways - even though they didn't make sense logically I assumed I was thinking about it wrong. After looking at the solution, it turns out my logic was fine, but I had my return statement in the wrong place. -_- I had it in inside the else statement inside for loop when it should have been outside the for loop all together.
In hindsight, this makes sense and now I know why the else statement wasn't being triggered under the appropriate conditions. I'm grateful I made this mistake because it's another example of how you can have your outline, or logic, of a program correct but if something is in the wrong place it won't work probably.
On that note, I've continued outlining my programs with pseudo-code before I begin writing them and this is continuing to help me immensely (even when I make simple mistakes like putting the return statement in the wrong place).
Study Music: Battlestar Galactica's Prelude to War by Bear McCreary
References:
- Character sets: ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe)
charCodeAt()- String length
charAt()String.fromCharCode()- freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: Missing letters
- The
argumentsobject - Simple Javascript Nested Array Examples
includes()
Link to work: freeCodeCamp Timeline