Mysterious Organism

boardwhiz59212 · March 10, 2020, 5:49am

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I am on the Mysterious Organism and maybe I do not know what I missed or why it just doesn’t make sense to me what I am doing. I understand that a factory function is to make multiple objects with like or even some of the same properties or variables. I think I am getting lost at adding functions in the return. I try to sit back and look at the scope of the project but I still seem to get lost.

Here is my current work on it.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/codecademydev/d254dd2a4775afd170d15ece3192f233

main.js

// Returns a random DNA base
const returnRandBase = () => {
  const dnaBases = ['A', 'T', 'C', 'G']
  return dnaBases[Math.floor(Math.random() * 4)] 
}

// Returns a random single stand of DNA containing 15 bases
const mockUpStrand = () => {
  const newStrand = []
  for (let i = 0; i < 15; i++) {

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I know it is in error. However I have come to a wall and don’t know how to proceed other than to review related material on this subject.

ktsotras · March 10, 2020, 7:19am

Can you please be a little more specific in the error you are running into? I’m guessing it has to do with willLikelySurvive?

boardwhiz59212 · March 11, 2020, 1:05am

You are correct it is willLikelySurvive. it said it wasn’t a function then I made it a function. but yes that is where I am stuck … I feel like I don’t know what the point is if you can’t use it.

ktsotras · March 11, 2020, 1:15am

It seems like you aren’t declaring the object method correctly in pAequorFactory. Remember that pAequorFactory is returning an object and you have to write willLikelySurvive as an object method. Here’s the cheatsheet from the JavaScript Objects lesson and the specific part of the lesson that is relevant.

boardwhiz59212 · March 12, 2020, 2:31pm

Thank you! this is very helpful.

boardwhiz59212 · March 13, 2020, 11:10am

I figured out what I was doing wrong thanks for your help