Intermediate Algorithm Scripting - Make a Person

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
I asked chatgpt how to make properties private, and it gave me an example using closure. My solution looks good and passed all tests but one.

You should be able to instantiate your Person object.

But I was able to create an instance of Person.

Your code so far

const Person = function(first, last) {
  let firstname = first;
  let lastname = last;

  return {
    getFirstName: function() {
      return firstname;
    },
    getLastName: function() {
      return lastname;
    },
    getFullName: function() {
      return firstname +" " +lastname;
    },
    setFirstName: function(newFirst) {
      firstname = newFirst;
    },
    setLastName: function(newLast) {
      lastname = newLast;
    },
    setFullName: function(newFirst, newLast) {
      firstname = newFirst;
      lastname = newLast;
    }
  };
};

let p = new Person('Bob', 'Ross');
console.log(Object.keys(p));

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Challenge: Intermediate Algorithm Scripting - Make a Person

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What is this syntax? Its not something you’ve seen in the freeCodeCamp coursework.

I’d stick to syntax covered in the course. In particular, you should follow the starting code:

const Person = function(first, last) {
  this.getFullName = function() {
    return "";
  };
  return "";
};
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Thanks! I finished it with this framework.
One more question. What does the return ""; at the bottom do? It doesn’t seem to do anything as I tried removing it.

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I’m not sure about that part. I don’t think the return value of a constructor defined in this way actually matters?

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