Basic JavaScript - Counting Cards

JavaScript
1

Hi, i’m trying to get this exercise done but i don’t understand what’s wrong with the count.
If i call the function cc(10), this should give a count of -1 so it should return “-1 Hold”, but instead it’s returning “0 Hold”. Can someone please help me?

Thanks!

   **Your code so far**

let count = 0;

function cc(card) {
 // Only change code below this line
if (card <= 6){
count++;
} else if (card>= 7 || card <= 9){
 count = count + 0;
} else if (card===10 || card=="J" || card=="Q" || card=="K" || card=="A") {
 count--;
} if (count > 0){
 return count + " Bet";
} else if (count <= 0){
 return count + " Hold";
}
 // Only change code above this line
}

cc(2); cc(3); cc(7); cc('K'); cc('A');


console.log(cc(10));


   **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Counting Cards

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2

You have a whole series of calls here, and tme effect on count is cumulative

Side note - this is very confusing formatting

3

Hi, you should take a look at the conditions you are using for your statements and also consider using a switch statement as that could make your code look much cleaner and avoid unnecessary steps. hope that helps : )

4

I think it returns 0 for 10 because of your previous else-if statement. A way around this would be a switch statement, hope that helps

5

A switch would not change how this code functions, only how the code is organized. A switch is not some superpower, it’s just an alternative way to represent this specific type of if-else logic.

6

Oh sorry, if I may have confused or mislead him or her.

7

Or here or and here?

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