Build a Logic Checker App - Step 3

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

i’m really stuck here, how to reassign the value of a “const variable” all I have read says this can’t be done

Your code so far


// User Editable Region

const truthyOrFalsy = true;

console.log(Boolean(truthyOrFalsy));
truthyOrFalsy = freeCodeCamp;

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Logic Checker App - Step 3

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Hi @grahamjohnson75

Change the assignment of truthyOrFalsy by setting its value to "freeCodeCamp".

One line 1 change the Boolean value to the new value.

Happy coding

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Thank’s :grin: I need to do more reading still don’t understand how that can be done if you can’t reassign a const variable

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Here, you are not reassigning the value.

You are changing the initial value.

If you tried to use the assignment operator to change the value, then that would raise an error.

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@grahamjohnson75 I was running into the same problem and the answers here also didn’t help me. I had to type on the first line: let truthyOrFalsy = “freeCodeCamp”;

I hope that helps you or anyone else running into this. I was stuck!

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Welcome to the forum @josephzalez!

There is no need to declare the variable with let rather than const because, as @Teller said, you are not reassigning the value; you are changing the initial value.

For example, this code would generate an error because you cannot reassign a variable declared as const:

const truthyOrFalsy = true;
truthyOrFalsy = "freeCodeCamp";  // ERROR!

But you are being asked to only change the initial value, so const truthyOrFalsy = "freeCodeCamp" works.

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Thank you.

Happy coding!