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[christinewho2]

Tell us what’s happening:

I don’t understand how I don’t past it, since the message for the console is just unexpected token at line 2:45 (I know 2 means line 2, but I never know what the number after means).

Your code so far

let count = 0;
function cardCounter(card) {if (card >= 2 && <= 6) {count++;}
  else if (card === 10) ||
card = "J" ||
card = "K" ||
card = "Q" ||
card = "A" { count--;}}
if (count > 0) { return count + " Bet";} else {return count + " Hold";}

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Challenge Information:

Build a Card Counting Assistant - Build a Card Counting Assistant

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GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/lab-counting-cards/68a23004e96a105df3a21fc4.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

[dhess]

@christinewho2

I never know what the number after means

It means the position within the line.

Also, don’t forget what ILM pointed out about right-clicking and selecting “Format Document” to format your code.

[christinewho2]

ah, could you precise where in the line, I did that but for me it looked messed up for some reasons.

[christinewho2]

code formated

let count = 0;
function cardCounter(card) {
  if (card >= 2 && <= 6) { count++; }
  else if (card === 10) ||
    card = "J" ||
      card = "K" ||
        card = "Q" ||
          card = "A" { count--; }
}
if (count > 0) { return count + " Bet"; } else { return count + " Hold"; }

[ILM]

@christinewho2

card = "J"

what is this doing? 

[dhess]

And is that inside your if statement?

[christinewho2]

the console provides nothing. to help… is a variable should I had a let? Edit didn’t help.

[ILM]

you are not creating a variable with this, are you? card already exists

what is =? what does it do?

[christinewho2]

i guess I should probably just reread everything…

i know the equal check for equality or smth… I thought Javascript was simpler but nope…

and they do not exist… the cards anyway gotta go eat.

[ILM]

it seems you may need to review the difference between assignment operator and equality operator, because card = "J" is not checking for equality

[christinewho2]

it check if it’s false or true?
still don’t get it… English is hard…

[dhess]

Please review this theory lecture about Booleans and equality operators:

Working with Comparison and Boolean Operators - What Are Booleans, and How Do They Work with Equality and Inequality Operators? | Learn | freeCodeCamp.org

[ILM]

no, it’s not, = is assignment operator

please review the difference between assignment operator and equality operator

[christinewho2]

I’m neurodivergent so their way they explain it doesn’t help. sometimes a reformulation helps. and sometimes there’s no enough pratice.
Also English = 2nd language.

[ILM]

there are three operators that use the = symbol: = and == and ===

== and === are similar, but to avoid some pitfalls, it is recommented you always use the strictly equal operator ===

@christinewho2

let count = 0;

you have used the = assignment operator here

[christinewho2]

oh… that makes more sense now…

[christinewho2]

but now it’s saying I have missing semi colons. maybe the lab is bugged itself?

[christinewho2]

since the first test is to declare a variable named count that is set to 0 so now even the first step doesn’t past.
link to lab in case your forgot the instruction /lighthearted https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-v9/lab-counting-cards/lab-counting-cards

[ILM]

please post your updated code, I can’t know what else is happening otherwise

There are two ways you can format your code to make it easier to read and test:

1. After you copy/paste your code into the editor, select it by dragging your cursor over it then click the (</>) button in the toolbar to automatically wrap your code in backticks. (You can click on the animated demo image below to enlarge it.)

2. Manually add three backticks on a new line above your code and on a new line after your code. Note that a backtick is NOT the same as a single quote('). To find the backtick key on your keyboard, see this post.

To see changes to your post as you make them, you can click the (M+) button on the toolbar to bring up the rich text editor:

[christinewho2]

I’m just gonna restart it from scratch since now I have a really different code that doesn’t past any test after rereading everything from start and I have no idea in which section they talk about assignments
since honestly I hadn’t changed anything even after trying your stuff. since you need the first thing to be a variable.