FAQ: Conditionals - If Statement

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This community-built FAQ covers the “If Statement” exercise from the lesson “Conditionals”.

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I literally did the exact same code
var learningToCode = true
if learningToCode {
print(“Don’t forget to take breaks! You got this :muscle:”)
}
idk the difference it keeps saying its wrong giving me a gray check
does anyone know why

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The issue with this is double quotation marks. The compiler runs into issues when a user tries to include “Don’t forget to take breaks! You got this :muscle:” I have tried using \ " but the compiler still gives an error even though it printed out correctly.

Edit: After viewing the solution, I am still confused as to why the solution works. I wrote the exact same thing.

var learningToCode = true

if learningToCode {
print(“Don’t forget to take breaks! You got this :muscle:”)
}

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So I’ve been trying to learn Swift lately and I understand a very basic level of it. I tried to define a bool variable like this var learningToCode: Bool = true and it threw an error up in my console and I really don’t understand why I didn’t need the bool defined.

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I didn’t understand too why we do not need space between { and if learningToCode.
that’s why it didn’t work out

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This problem has not only NOT been resolved yet by Codecademy, but upon asking the editor to give me the solution so that I could continue, it proceeded to give me the solution for the NEXT task, not the current one.
Comparing the solution to the code I wrote, it seems the only difference was the variable declaration.

I wrote: var learningToCode: Bool = true

What was expected was var learningToCode = true

We should not be punished for using variable declaration syntax that was not only declared as correct, but actively encouraged in previous lessons - doubly so if the code was marked as correct on a previous step.

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What"s the use of Bool type?