Not really a bug but suggestion

Challenge Word Blanks has an issue. User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.95 Safari/537.36. Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.

My code:

function wordBlanks(myNoun, myAdjective, myVerb, myAdverb) {
  var result = "";
  // Your code below this line
  
   result = "The " + myNoun + " is " + myAdjective + " and it " + myVerb + " " + myAdverb;

  // Your code above this line
  return result;
}

// Change the words here to test your function
wordBlanks("dog", "big", "ran", "quickly");

Hi, i’m not complaining about the exercise, but the thing that confuse me and get me to the wrong path is that the

var result = “”;

The fact that the var result is equal to a string without anything inside is a bit confusing. Why not rather set it like

var result;

without any output(is it really an output?) it’s perhaps a better way to understand it =)

Thanks in advance,

Albin.

[QuincyLarson]

@erictleung yes - functions need to be more properly introduced first. I’m talking with a contributor, @edorado93, who’s interested in expanding our function-focused challenges in the JavaScript section, and we could then move this challenge behind that.

[erictleung]

@anitawoodruff thanks for the feedback and sharing your experience with mentoring students on these challenges.

@freeCodeCamp/moderators should we move this to somewhere after “Write Useable JavaScript with Functions”? In my opinion, the purpose of this challenge is to review the string concatenation concepts that were learned about 5 or so challenges previously. I like the idea of review or synthesis challenges, but I’m conflicted on whether to just “randomly” introducing concepts like functions without much information.

My suggestion on fixing this issue would be to ideally move this challenge later on and somehow create another challenge in its current place that serves to review the concepts from earlier on. Maybe we can implement the slideshow sort of review like in this introduction for regular expressions, but instead of an introduction, it’ll be more of a review checkpoint. Thoughts?