Problem with Minimum exercise

Javascript Programming
#1

Continuing the discussion from Chapter 3 Exercises:

So for some reason my minimum function is not alerting the user. Can someone give me a heads up on what is wrong with my code. I think it has something to do with how I ordered the returns and console.log, but then again I am not completely sure. Thanks in advance!!!

<script> 

      //Minimum Exercise

      function minimum(a,b){
        if(a<b){
          let result = a 
        }
        else{
          let result = b
        }
        return result
      }

    var Min436 = (minimum(36,4))

    alert(Min436)

    
    </script>
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#2

Please remove the extra parenthesis.

It should be -
var Min436 = minimum(36,4)

Hope this helps. :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks Malik!!

Unfortunately the code still fails to alert the minimum when I copy paste it into the console. Do you think there are any other problems with the code?

I have a feeling I may have miss placed a “return”, or incorrectly assigned a the result variable.

Thanks for your help as always!

#4

Oh that’s because you used “let” to define your variables. “let” is bracket scoped so the variable isn’t accessible outside the brackets.

Best would be to do this –

<script> 

      //Minimum Exercise

      function minimum(a,b){
       let result = a; 
        if(a<b){
          result = a 
        }
        else{
          result = b
        }
        return result
      }

    var Min436 = minimum(36,4)

    alert(Min436)

    
    </script>

This should work

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