Functions have proven to be a real challenge for me.

Hi Hannah,

To begin, you can declare the function, like so:

var max = function() {

};

Now, the function will take two arguments. Arguments go inside the parenthesis and are separated by a comma. You can have as many arguments as you want, but this code challenge asks for two. You can name them what you want; I'm going to name them number and otherNumber.

var max = function(number, otherNumber) {

};

Now you need to use a conditional statement that will run that compares the numbers together to see which one is larger. An if/else statement will do.

var max = function(number, otherNumber) {
  if (number > otherNumber) {
    return number;
  } else {
    return otherNumber;
  }
};

When the function is called, it will look like this:

max(1, 2);

The function will evaluate which number is larger (in this case, 1 or 2) and return the larger.

For the second portion of the code challenge, you need to call the function and use an alert to display which number is greater. You can do that by putting the function inside of the alert parenthesis like so:

alert(max(1, 2));

And that should solve the code challenge. If there is still anything you don't understand, please don't hesitate to ask me more questions.

John