Hi everyone, I am currently stuck on SleepDeptCalculator

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  if (day === "Monday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Tuesday") {
    return 7;
  } else if (day === "Wednessday") {
    return 6;
  } else if (day === "Thursday") {
    return 7;
  } else if (day === "Friday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Saturday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Sunday") {
    return 5;
  } else {
    return "Error";
  }
};

console.log(getSleepHours("Wednessday"));

const getActualSleepHours = () =>

  getSleepHours("Monday") +
  getSleepHours("Tuesday") +
  getSleepHours("Wednessday") +
  getSleepHours("Thursday") +
  getSleepHours("Friday") +
  getSleepHours("Saturday") +
  getSleepHours("Sunday");

console.log(getActualSleepHours());

const getIdealSleepHours = () => {
  let idealHours = 8;
  return idealHours * 7;
};

// const getIdealSleepHours = idealHours => idealHours * 7;

console.log(getIdealSleepHours());

const calculateSleepDebt = () => {
  let actualSleepHours = getActualSleepHours();
  const idealSleepHours = getIdealSleepHours();

  // const idealSleepHours = getIdealSleepHours(8);

  if ((actualSleepHours = idealSleepHours)) {
    console.log("You got the perfect amount of sleep!.");
  } else if (actualSleepHours > idealSleepHours) {
    console.log(
      "You got " +
        (actualSleepHours - idealSleepHours) +
        "more sleep than needed!."
    );
  } else if (actualSleepHours < idealSleepHours) {
    console.log(
      "You need to get some rest because you've slept" +
        (idealSleepHours - actualSleepHours) +
        "less this week!."
    );
  } else {
    console.log("Something went wrong!.");
  }
};

calculateSleepDebt();

Hi, every time I save my code, it keeps giving the same answer of user getting perfect sleep even after I change my return values. I guess something is not right in my else if statements, but i’ve been trying to find the error for over an hour. I would really appreciate the help!.
https://www.codecademy.com/workspaces/63ee6eeb42de2c28e67c13b6
I was also getting an error of assigning to a constant variable in the calculateSleepDebt, but i changed from const to let and it worked, but when i watched the walkthrough video, Galina’s code ran on the const variable.
p.s - the code in comments are my attempts of step 12 which is also giving and error message.

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The first thing I notice is this:

const getActualSleepHours = () => 6 + 7 + 9 + 8 + 5 + 10 + 11;
getSleepHours("Monday") +
  getSleepHours("Tuesday") +
  getSleepHours("Wednessday") +
  getSleepHours("Thursday") +
  getSleepHours("Friday") +
  getSleepHours("Saturday") +
  getSleepHours("Sunday");

getActualSleepHours returns always the same number because it ends after the semicolon behind 11. The rest will be ignored.

The second thing is this:

const getIdealSleepHours = idealHours => {
  return idealHours * 7;
};

console.log(getIdealSleepHours());

getIdealSleepHours exprects an argument, but you call it without an argument.

If you post code in the editor, please wrap it in 3 backticks (```) to make it readable.

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Hi @staledata thank you so much for your contribution. I have added the backticks you said, but the rest of the code still doesn’t work.

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if ((actualSleepHours = idealSleepHours))
a single equal sign is used for an assignment. What you want to do in the if statement is a comparison (2 or 3 equal signs).

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Thank you @staledata it works now, you’re a life saver!. But now, i keep getting a NAN for actualSleepHours when I run this code after step 12 :

  if (day === "Monday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Tuesday") {
    return 5;
  } else if (day === "Wednesday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Thursday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Friday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Saturday") {
    return 8;
  } else if (day === "Sunday") {
    return 9;
  } else {
    return "Error";
  }
};

console.log(getSleepHours("Tuesday"));

const getActualSleepHours = () =>
  8 + 5 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 9;

console.log(getActualSleepHours());

const getIdealSleepHours = idealHours => idealHours * 7;

console.log(getIdealSleepHours());

const calculateSleepDebt = () => {
  let actualSleepHours = getActualSleepHours();
  const idealSleepHours = getIdealSleepHours(8);

  if (actualSleepHours === idealSleepHours) {
    console.log("You got the perfect amount of sleep!.");
  } else if (actualSleepHours > idealSleepHours) {
    console.log(
      "You got " +
        (actualSleepHours - idealSleepHours) +
        " hour more sleep than needed!."
    );
  } else if (actualSleepHours < idealSleepHours) {
    console.log(
      "You need to get some rest because you've slept " + 
         (idealSleepHours - actualSleepHours) +
        " less this week!."
    );
  } else {
    console.log("Something went wrong!.");
  }
};

calculateSleepDebt();
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That actually logs 54 when I call it.

You do get NaN for calling getIdealSleepHours without an argument: