I'm working on a codecademy.com lesson on arrays. I'm supposed to write nested loops to put each card of every suit in a deck of cards in an array.
I'm really messing this up. This is one combination that I've tried that doesn't work. The only indication that I have that I'm sort of close is that it returns "52" so at least 52 objects are going into the array. can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong?
//array 1: the suits
var suits = ["clubs","hearts","diamonds","spades"];
//array 2: the ranks
var ranks = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,"J","Q","K","A"];
//using for loops, modify the "deck" array so that it becomes a
//two-dimensional array that stores every card in the deck;
//e.g. [1, "clubs"], [2, "clubs"],etc...["A", "spades"]
var deck = [];
for(i = 0; i < suits.length; i++){
for (j = 0; j < ranks.length; j++){
var cardArray = [];
cardArray[0] = suits[i];
cardArray[0][0] = ranks[j];
deck.push(cardArray);
}
}
Each iteration, a new array is being added to deck that looks like the following:
cardArray: [ [ ranks[j] ] ]
When cardArray[0][0] is set, it is overwriting cardArray[0] as an array with index 0 containing ranks[j]. Instead, set cardArray[0] to suits, and cardArray[1] to ranks.
cardArray[0] = suits[i];
cardArray[1] = ranks[j];
deck.push(cardArray);
This results in:
for (var i = 0; i < suits.length; i++){
for (var j = 0; j < ranks.length; j++){
var cardArray = [];
cardArray[0] = suits[i];
cardArray[1] = ranks[j];
deck.push(cardArray);
}
}
You should use a var
declaration for your loop counter. Your problematic code is
cardArray[0] = suits[i];
cardArray[0][0] = ranks[j];
which does things like
var foo = "clubs";
foo[0] = "J";
which obviously does not work. I think what you want is
var deck = [];
for(var i = 0; i < suits.length; i++){
var cardArray = [];
for (j = 0; j < ranks.length; j++){
var twoCards = [];
twoCards[0] = suits[i];
twoCards[1] = ranks[j];
cardArray.push(twoCards);
// // or the same thing as this loop body, shorter:
// cardArray.push([suits[i], ranks[j]]);
}
deck.push(cardArray);
}
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