Sleep Debt Calculator

bit7151005532 · July 23, 2020, 10:04am

Hi all - apologies if a similar question has been posted here previously. Just wanted to ask if anybody can see where I might have gone wrong with the sleep debt calculator?

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/codecademydev/fab22afbe13d4305a4f9d9f83a2e52e0

sleepDebtCalculator.js

const getSleepHours = (day) => {
  if (day === 'Monday') {
    return 5;
  } else if (day === 'Tuesday') {
    return 5;
  } else if (day === 'Wednesday') {
    return 5;
  } else if (day === 'Thursday') {
    return 5;
  } else if (day === 'Friday') {

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It all seems to run fine but whatever numbers I use for getActualSleepHours, whenever I start the program by calling the calculateSleepDebt() function, it only returns:

if (actualSleepHours = idealSleepHours) {

console.log('You had the perfect amount of sleep!');

The two numbers clearly do not add up however, so I’m not sure why this is the only line that is logged.

Any help appreciated.

By the way, this is my first time posting here, so apologies if I haven’t included enough information/links

adamgaffney96 · July 23, 2020, 10:52am

On line 37 you have written this

if (actualSleepHours = idealSleepHours) {

And this is reassigning actualSleepHours to idealSleepHours, thus always returning the phrase inside that block. You need to use either ==or === for it to work!

bit7151005532 · July 23, 2020, 10:50am

Ah yes, excellent - thanks very much. Knew it would be something obvious like that!

system · September 3, 2020, 2:59am

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