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JavaScript

Posted by Zachary Smith
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Zachary Smith
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 16,616 Points

My solution for "How many seconds have I been alive?"

Hi all, figured I would share my solution as suggested by the video.

https://w.trhou.se/uz6z71hh7c

Any thoughts on how to make this more efficient? I'm still extremely new. Also is there a way to embed this code into a message without doing 3 backticks on every line? Thanks!

2 Answers

Victor Mercier
Victor Mercier
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Victor Mercier
Victor Mercier
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Hi, with the knowledge you know, you cannot really make this solution better but you will soon learn more advanced topics that will make you able to improve it!

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,153 Points

It's only a tiny improvement, but you can use expressions inside interpolation tokens to avoid creating variables that aren't otherwise needed:

console.log(`I've been alive for more than ${secondsPerYear * yearsAlive} seconds!`);

And the 3 backticks can be used on a line by themselves before and after the code instead of on every line (as I did above). For more info, see this video on Markdown formatting.