I did it! After 2 long days of setbacks, I passed the Lambda School Challenge. This time around, I anticipated two things:

1. I was going to have to use outside help to pass, which is apparently the norm, so I had Google, Stack Overflow and some other sites ready and waiting.
2. I knew that the hardest questions were going to be about methods in arrays which hadn’t been covered in the pre-course.

The first question was actually something that we had covered in class – but as I expected, it centered on an array. Without going into details, because we’re not supposed to share the questions, the solution had to do with using the .push method on the array. Luckily, when I made my cheat sheet the other night, I included a code example which helped me to come up with the correct solution quickly.

The second question was also focused on an array. It asked us to modify the given function to return a certain class of number. In a word – it was a repeat question from yesterday! So, I was able to reference my answer and knock it out almost immediately. This left me with close to 40 mins for the final question.

The last question was something new. We had to modify yet another function to return a new array with 3 sets of paired information. We had to filter it for a certain requirement and return one piece of data from the pairs which qualified. At first, I thought I could figure it out, and I started working to do that, but then I realized – we’re being asked to use outside resources to complete these tasks, so I did that.

The answer to that exact problem was posted online. I felt somewhat bad doing it, but completing that question was nothing more than a cut-and-paste job. I did first copy everything into repl.it, to make sure that it would all work, and after about 20 seconds of work, it did, so:

My cohort starts classes on August 5th. The hard part is coming…