Functions & Scopes Workshop

You're here to solidify your understanding of Functions & Scopes in JavaScript.

IMPORTANT: Completion of this workshop is no guarantee of admission into the Hack Reactor immersive program, nor does it have any influence in the admissions process.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that students understand JavaScript variables, if/else statements, loops, objects, arrays and functions prior to this course; however it is not required. Students should have approximately 2 months of experience with JavaScript and programming.

Textbook

No textbook is required for this course. All materials are included in this GitHub repo.

Technical requirements

Laptop, Google Chrome browser and a text editor. We recommend Sublime Text 3 for this workshop becuase it's fast and light-weight.

How to use this repository

#####It is your mission to go through the function.js file and change all the '???' in such a way that all the tests pass true.

###Let's get started...

Run the specrunner.html file in a browser. This document shows one passed test and a series of failing tests.

The functions.js folder holds all the failing tests that are being displayed in SpecRunner.html. You will be editing this file and using the SpecRunner.html to check your progress on making these tests pass. This is just a javascript file so you can use console.log to help debug and inspect these functions.

A test block starts with an it function. The it function takes two arguments. The first one is a statement describing the rule addressed by the test. The second is a function that will either evaluate to true or false using the expect function. The expect statement (expect(ACTUAL === 'inner').to.be.true;) will evaluate if the statement between the parens ACTUAL === 'inner' is true. You can almost read it like plain English. The expect statement below "expects that the variable ACTUAL equals the value 'inner' to be true".

####Failing Test Example

  it('a function has access to its own local scope variables',

  function () {
    var fn = function () {
      var name = 'inner';
      ACTUAL = name;
    };
    fn();
    expect(ACTUAL === '???').to.be.true;
    //change '???' to what ACTUAL evaluates to.
  });

####Passing Test Example

  it('a function has access to its own local scope variables',

  function () {
    var fn = function () {
      var name = 'inner';
      ACTUAL = name;
    };
    fn();
    expect(ACTUAL === 'inner').to.be.true;
    //changed '???' to 'inner'
    //(because we assigned ACTUAL, a global variable to name inside fn)
  });

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