committing my changes

Author: calebehickey

explicit-and-implicit-conversion-in-javascript.js

@@ -21,12 +21,33 @@ Use console.log() to clearly show the before-and-after type conversions.
 
 let result = "5" - 2;
 console.log("The result is: " + result);
+//I don't think there's an error in this first block? Javascript coerces the string "5" into a number, and the output for this block when I first ran this file in my terminal was "The result is: 3". Unless we want it to print out a number that is not mathematically correct, I'm not seeing an error here.
 
-let isValid = Boolean("false");
+let isValid = Boolean(false);
 if (isValid) {
     console.log("This is valid!");
 }
+else 
+    console.log("false");
+//This block originally returned "This is valid!" because the value "false" in the parentheses next to the Boolean function was a string. Javascript read this as a truthy value, and so it printed out the string in the console.log. To debug this, I removed the parentheses in "false". I added an "else" fuction to print out false to have the terminal explicity state that the variable was a false bool.
 
 let age = "25";
+age = Number(age);
 let totalAge = age + 5;
 console.log("Total Age: " + totalAge);
+// To stop the program from string concantenating the variable "age" with the number it was adding to it in the third line (third line after I added my correction), I used the Number() operator to convert the value type to a number, which could then get added in correctly in the variable "totalAge"
+
+
+
+//My explicit example
+
+let students = "18";
+let teachers = 4;
+students = Number(students);
+let allAttendees = students + teachers;
+console.log(allAttendees);
+
+//My implicit example
+
+let pizzas = 3;
+console.log(`You have ordered ${pizzas} pizzas today`);