Problem with "Build a Mathbot" Step 1

JavaScript
1

Hello there.

I’m trying to do the “Build a Mathbot” workshop right now and for some reason i can’t get past Step 1. As of now, my code looks like that:

const botName = "MathBot";
const greeting = "Hi there! My name is ${botName} and I am here to teach you about the Math object!";
console.log(greeting);

I get the following message when I try to submit it:

You should assign the following sentence to the greeting variable: "Hi there! My name is [MathBot goes here] and I am here to teach you about the Math object!". Make sure to replace [MathBot goes here] with the botName variable.

What am I missing here? Thank you for your help!

Edit: I managed to get it right with string concatenation and it changes the code to:

const botName = “MathBot”;

const greeting = `Hi there! My name is ${botName} and I am here to teach you about the Math object!`;

console.log(greeting);

Am I wrong to assume that template literals should work in double quotes? Thanks!

2

Yes

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_string_templates.asp

Did you not see that your output was not printing the variable?

3

On no, I absolutely saw it. I just thought to remember to also do it with double quotes in the “String Inspector” workshop but apparently i remembered wrong. Thanks again for your help!

4

There’s basically no difference between single and double quotes. Except if you need to include quotes in your string you can alternate.

console.log('This will print "quotes" around that word')