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JavaScript

Posted by Michael Fazekas
Michael Fazekas
3,070 Points

Back ticks in treehouse workspaces JUST FOUND OUT! :)

I was starting on while loops lets make random numbers, messing around with it and Treehouse workspaces let's you use the back ticks and ${} in its coding IDE. Pretty awesome!

check it out here at he bottom of my code.

var upper = 10000;

var randomNumber = getRandomNumber(upper);

var guess;

var attempts = 0;

function getRandomNumber(upper) {
  return Math.floor( Math.random() * upper ) + 1;
}
while(guess !== randomNumber){
guess = getRandomNumber(upper);
  attempts +=1;
}
//back ticks and ${} used below
document.write(`The random number was ${randomNumber} and it took the computer ${attempts} try's to get the number right.`);

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points

Those are template literals, and they are covered in the Getting Started With ES2015 course. There's also two workshops devoted to them: Introducing Template Literals and Practice Template Literals.

Michael Fazekas
Michael Fazekas
3,070 Points

awesome I had no idea they did those yet. which I think those couple courses on down from where i'm at in JavaScript.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,266 Points

Michael Fazekas — Glad to help. You can mark a question solved by choosing a "best answer".
And happy coding!