School Catalog project

#1

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hi there,
I have started doing the School Catalog project, but I have encounter a difficulty. When I call the quickFackts() metod it doesn’t show the property values but shows undefined. Also I don’t understand in the related walkthrough video in the quickFacts() method the placeholders are refered eg as {this.name}, while in the class the property is _name, so why it is not {this._name}?
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#2

difficult to say without your code. Please copy paste your code to the forum

giving a property a underscore prefix is a naming convention which means the property uses getters (and/or setters), so this.name “calls” the getter. using this._name would access the property directly.

#3

thanks stetim94, regarding the name convention it is now clear that we are to call the method and referring to the property directly