Build a Teacher Chatbot - Step 6

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

why is my template literal not substituting with the value for the variable subject? it is just reposting the $ and the curly braces.

Your code so far

console.log("Hi there!");

const botName = "teacherBot";

const greeting = `My name is ${botName}.`;
console.log(greeting);

const subject = "JavaScript";
const topic = "strings";

const sentence = `Today, you will learn about ${topic} in ${subject}.`;
console.log(sentence);


// User Editable Region

const strLengthIntro = 'Here is an example of using the length property on the word ${subject}.'; 

console.log(strLengthIntro);

// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Teacher Chatbot - Step 6

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/workshop-teacher-chatbot/66b6d482bbb9e12f2e5ee1ae.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

2

Hi

You use backticks for template literals not single quotes.

3

can I see an example of how those are used?

4

These are backticks:

``

You correctly used backticks on some of your code but not this line:

const strLengthIntro = 'Here is an example of using the length property on the word ${subject}.';
5

I found that part, but with the literals. I put that on with the $ and the curly braces, but it didn’t change anything.

6

On your code, can you see the difference:

const strLengthIntro = 'Here is an example of using the length property on the word ${subject}.';

and

const sentence = `Today, you will learn about ${topic} in ${subject}.`;

Can you see why the first line isn’t right? See my posts above which explains why

7

I got it now. Use the backwards quote thing when you are using the curly braces instead of the quotes you use for a regular string.