how to assign a val

[Dhruvp]

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far

// Setup
var a;
a = 7;
var b;
b = 7;
var ab;
a = b;
// Only change code below this line

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Challenge: Assigning the Value of One Variable to Another

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[Sky020]

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[twotani]

Do you understand what the given sample code is doing?

var myVar;
myVar = 5;
var myNum;
myNum = myVar;

The starter code is

var a;
a = 7;
var b;

and the task is to assign the value of a to b. You wrote

b = 7;

The task is not to assign a fixed value 7 to b. The task is whatever the value of a is, assign that value to b.

What are you trying to achieve with this?

var ab;

Variables a and b are declared and a has a value assigned to it. You assign that value of a to b. Don’t add any unnecessary code. Study the sample code

var myVar;
myVar = 5;
var myNum;
myNum = myVar;

[Dhruvp]

Tell us what’s happening:

Your code so far

// Setup

var a;

a = 7;

var b;

b=7

var ab; b=7
a=b;

// Only change code below this line

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36.

Challenge: Assigning the Value of One Variable to Another

Link to the challenge:

freeCodeCamp.org

[twotani]

We can assign a value 8 to a variable x like this.

var x = 8;

We can declare the variable first without assigning any value, and then assign a value to it like this.

var x;
x = 8;

The next code assigns a value of 8 to a variable x and then assigns a new value 12 to x.

let x = 8;
x = 12;

Can you write code to assign the value of 8 to a variable x and then assigns a new value of 20?
Now, consider the following code.

var y = 20;
var x;
x = y;

The value of y is 20. What do you think the value of x would be?
Specifically about your code.

var ab; //Don't declare a variable you don't assign 
        // any value to it. Just because there are 
        // variables a and b, declaring a new 
        // variable ab that combines  variables a and b will
        //  not do anything. It won't magically create 
        // a new value that somehow adds two values
        //  or assigns one value to another. 
        // There's no Harry Potter around here.

b = 7     //Terminate statements with a semicolon like b = 7;