Learn Recursion by Building a Decimal to Binary Converter - Step 31

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:

I need to log the inputs to the console. The instruction is “Log the text Inputs: , followed by a comma, followed by the inputs array to the console”. I find confusing the part of the followed by a comma. I am trying to do it with:

  console.log(`Inputs: ${inputs.join(",")}`);

But I am not being able to pass the tests. Can you help me?

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Decimal to Binary Converter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Decimal to Binary Converter</h1>
    <div class="input-container">
      <label for="number-input">Enter a decimal number:</label>
      <input
        value=""
        type="number"
        name="decimal number input"
        id="number-input"
        class="number-input"
      />
      <button class="convert-btn" id="convert-btn">Convert</button>
    </div>
    <output id="result" for="number-input"></output>
    <div id="animation-container"></div>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
*,
*::before,
*::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

:root {
  --light-grey: #f5f6f7;
  --dark-blue: #1b1b32;
  --orange: #f1be32;
}

body {
  background-color: var(--dark-blue);
  font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
  font-size: 18px;
  color: var(--light-grey);
  padding: 0 15px;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
}

h1 {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 2.3rem;
  margin: 20px 0;
}

.input-container {
  margin: 10px 0;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 10px;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.convert-btn {
  background-color: var(--orange);
  cursor: pointer;
  border: none;
  padding: 4px;
}

.number-input {
  height: 25px;
}

#result {
  margin: 10px 0;
  min-width: 200px;
  width: fit-content;
  min-height: 80px;
  word-break: break-word;
  padding: 15px;
  border: 5px solid var(--orange);
  font-size: 2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

#animation-container {
  margin: auto;
  max-width: 300px;
}

.animation-frame {
  margin: 250px auto 0;
  padding: 15px 10px;
  border: 5px solid var(--orange);
  font-size: 1.2rem;
  text-align: center;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 500px) {
  .input-container {
    flex-direction: row;
  }

  #result {
    max-width: 460px;
  }
}

/* file: script.js */
const numberInput = document.getElementById("number-input");
const convertBtn = document.getElementById("convert-btn");
const result = document.getElementById("result");

const decimalToBinary = (input) => {
  const inputs = [];
  const quotients = [];
  const remainders = [];

  while (input > 0) {
    const quotient = Math.floor(input / 2);
    const remainder = input % 2;

    inputs.push(input);
    quotients.push(quotient);
    remainders.push(remainder);
    input = quotient;
  }


/* User Editable Region */

  console.log(`Inputs: ${inputs.join(",")}`);
};

/* User Editable Region */


const checkUserInput = () => {
  if (!numberInput.value || isNaN(parseInt(numberInput.value))) {
    alert("Please provide a decimal number");
    return;
  }

  decimalToBinary(parseInt(numberInput.value));
  numberInput.value = "";
};

convertBtn.addEventListener("click", checkUserInput);

numberInput.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
  if (e.key === "Enter") {
    checkUserInput();
  }
});

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Learn Recursion by Building a Decimal to Binary Converter - Step 31

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You don’t need to do a join to print out the elements in an array to the console. You can just pass the name of the array into console.log and it will print out all of the elements in the array nice and pretty. That’s what the instructions are asking you to do here.

So forget about the join and do the following inside of console.log:

  • print the text Inputs: as you normally would
  • followed by a comma
  • followed by the inputs array (just the name of the array, nothing else)
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Thanks! I realized it just after adding the question here. I got confused as I understood the comma was referring to the output been printed in csv format (and as you mention, it is already printed like that when logging an array) instead of on the way you should call the log method.

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