Basic JavaScript: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown question

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Can somebody tell me what I’ve done wrong?

Your code so far


// Only change code below this line
function countdown(n){
if (n < 1);
return[];
} else {
const countArray = countdown(n - 1)
countArray.push(n)
return countArray;
}
// Only change code above this line

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LM-X420) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown

Link to the challenge:

2

Here you have a ; instead of an {

As for the function, it’s currently counting up instead of down. :slight_smile:

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Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far


// Only change code below this line
function countdown(n) {
if (n > 1) {
return[];
} else {
const countArray = countdown(n + 1)
countArray.push(n)
return countArray;
}
// Only change code above this line

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LM-X420) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown

Link to the challenge:

4

Hello there.

Do you have a question?

If so, please edit your post to include it in the Tell us what’s happening section.

The more information you give us, the more likely we are to be able to help.

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5

Tell us what’s happening:
Can somebody tell what I have done wrong?

Your code so far


// Only change code below this line
function countdown(n) {
if (n > 1) {
return[];
} else {
const countArray = countdown(n + 1)
countArray.push(n)
return countArray;
}
// Only change code above this line

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LM-X420) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown

Link to the challenge:

6

Please do not create duplicate topics for the same challenge/project question(s). I will merge this into your previous topic.

Thank you.

7

Tell us what’s happening:
Can somebody tell what I have done wrong?

Your code so far


// Only change code below this line
function countdown(n) {
if (n > 1) {
return[];
} else {
const countArray = countdown(n + 1)
countArray.push(n)
return countArray;
}
// Only change code above this line

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; LM-X420) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.79 Mobile Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Countdown

Link to the challenge:

8

You’ve created three threads for the same topic. I have combined them for you.

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