Build a card counting assistant

1

Does anyone know how to solve step 4? ‘after the cards 2, 3,4,5, then calling cardCounter(6) should return the string 5 bet ‘ question.

2

Tell us what’s happening:

I cant figure out step 4 with the build a cardCounter assistant task. Does anyone know how to make the console return 5 Bet?

Your code so far

let count = 0;
let decision = count > 0 ? "Bet" : "Hold";
function cardCounter(card) {
switch(card) {
  case 2:
  count +=1; 
  break;
  case 3:
  count +=1;
  break;
  case 4:
  count +=1;
  break;
  case 5:
  count +=1;
  break;
  case 6:
  count +=1;
  break;
  case 7:
  count +=0;
  break;
  case 8:
  count +=0;
  break;
  case 9:
  count +=0;
  break;
  case 10:
  count -=1;
  break;
  case "J":
  count -=1;
  break;
  case "Q":
  count -=1;
  break;
  case "K":
  count -=1;
  break;
  case "A":
  count -=1;
  break;
 } return count + " " + decision; 
}

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Challenge Information:

Build a Card Counting Assistant - Build a Card Counting Assistant

3

Welcome to the forum @Codecamp33

I went ahead and combined your posts for you. In the future, just reply to the original thread to add further updates.

Happy coding

4

Consider the scope of the decision variable.

Happy coding

5

you put decision here outside the function, do you think its value is ever going to change?

6

I’ve revised some stuff but am still completely stuck with create a number counting assistant. what’s wrong with the code so far. The console says everything’s fine and returns 5 bet for step 4 , but the only step that is accepted by the program is step 1. says everything else is wrong. Have tried every variation on the code that i could come across and nothing satisfies both the program and returns five bet for step 4.

7

Tell us what’s happening:

redid the problem from step 1 through 4, as far as i know. can make the console return 5 bet for step 4, and no other errors, supposedly. but cannot satisfy the steps in the program and get it to return 5 bet. have tried every variation I could come across and nothing works for both. what’s wrong so far? This is for the build a card counting assistant.

Your code so far

let count = 0; 
function cardCounter(card) {
  return count + (Bet, Hold);
}switch(card) {
case 2:
case 3:
case 4:
case 5: 
case 6: 
count++;
break;
case 10:
case "J":
case "Q":
case "K":
case "A":
count--;
break;
}
let decision = count > 0? "Bet":"Hold";
return count + "" + decision;
}
cardCounter(2);
cardCounter(3);
cardCounter(4);
cardCounter(5);
console.log(cardCounter(6));

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Build a Card Counting Assistant - Build a Card Counting Assistant

8

Hi @Codecamp33

I went ahead and combined your posts for you. In the future, just reply to the original thread to add further updates.

Thanks.

9

There is a message in the console.

SyntaxError: unknown: ‘return’ outside of function. (21:0)

19 | }
20 | let decision = count > 0? “Bet”:“Hold”;

21 | return count + “” + decision;
| ^
22 | }
23 | cardCounter(2);
24 | cardCounter(3);

Happy coding

10

after you fix the syntax error, test what your function is returning and compare with the requested result