freeCodeCamp Challenge Guide: Use Higher-Order Functions map, filter, or reduce to Solve a Complex Problem

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Use Higher-Order Functions map, filter, or reduce to Solve a Complex Problem

Problem Explanation

We need to compute and square values from the realNumberArray and store them in the variable squaredIntegers using the map(), filter(), and/or reduce() functions.

Hints

Hint 1

  • You will need to filter() the realNumberArray for positive integers (decimals are not integers).

Hint 2

  • You will need to map() the values from your filter() function to the variable squaredIntegers.

Hint 3

  • Remember the magic of chaining functions.

Solutions

Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide) 
const squareList = (arr) => {
  // Only change code below this line
  return arr
          .filter(num => num > 0 && num % parseInt(num) === 0)
          .map(num => Math.pow(num, 2));
  // Only change code above this line
};

const squaredIntegers = squareList([-3, 4.8, 5, 3, -3.2]);
console.log(squaredIntegers);

Code Explanation

Uses the operator filter() and map() functions to square all positive integers in a given array.

Solution 2 (Click to Show/Hide) 
const squareList = arr => {
  return arr.reduce((sqrIntegers, num) => {
    return Number.isInteger(num) && num > 0
      ? sqrIntegers.concat(num * num)
      : sqrIntegers;
  }, []);
};

Code Explanation

This does basically the same but uses the isInteger() method to check the numbers.

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