Using an assignment expression AND the addition operator, store the SUM of the following three values in a variable:
The number of wheels on a tricycle
The number of calories in Dr. Pepper “Ten”
The number of years depicted in “Seven Years in Tibet”
Additionally, make your variable’s name:
Begin with the English spelling of the actual sum
End with the numerical version of the actual sum
Though the information presented in this course was good for beginners, the exercises presented in the challenges were very disappointing. Many of them were written like those terrible math class word problems that made people hate learning math. Worse, those problems rarely had anything to do with the kinds of problems people actually solve using javascript. The challenge about adding up the numbers hinted at in sentences ("The number of years in Seven Years in Tibet") and having to name the variable both the english and numerical value of that sum is a perfect example of this. Why are there problems written like captcha challenges in this course? What does solving that problem teach anyone about javascript? How does it lay a foundation for the kinds of problems Javascript is good at solving?
I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but these are the kinds of hard to read, hard to understand, useless in the real world problems that make people think they can't program when really they're just having a hard time understanding a purposefully confusing word problem. This is the exact opposite of what beginners need, and it's frustrating to see this being presented in the very first javascript class people might take with you.