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layout: post title: Make a person date: 2018-01-17 —

Make a person

Algorithim challenge

I were suppose to fill in the object constructor with the following methods below:

getFirstName()
getLastName()
getFullName()
setFirstName(first)
setLastName(last)
setFullName(firstAndLast)

And run the tests to see the expected output for each method. The methods that take an argument must accept only one argument and it has to be a string. The methods must be the only available means of interacting with the object.

Code Explanation:

1. Create a variable that will make a copy of the full name that was passed as a parameter.

2. Then we can proceed to create the six methods needed and return what is asked for.

3. For the individual setters, we can use the split to turn the fullname into an array

My approach

I have a function that passes through one parameter called first and last and when exercuting the function it will return the fullname of the person. I used dot this to allow all the generic initializations in one constructor and have specializations in others.

I created another variable named fullname that will make a copy of full name that was passed as a parameter. And the first function is used to separete the full name of the person so that you can see this is the first name and last name. The second and third function will show that after splitted full name,the first name will be index zero(0),where index zero is the starting point and the last name will be index one(1) ,wher index 1 is the last index.

I created another function that will join the first name and the last name, when consologing it will return the joined fullname. I also have the lasts two function, like when getting the first name it will return the first index which is the name of the person and the last index which is the last name of the person. I have the last variable which is the name of the person that will be equal to or same as the new person which is the full name of the person.

Finally, this challenge didn’t challenge me like the previous one and i did enjoy it and i spent more than 30 minutes but less than an hour trying to understand the problem and how am i going to solve it like i wrote code explanation so that it will be much easier for me.

This is my code

var Person = function (firstAndLast) { var fullname;

this.setFullName = (full) => {
    fullname = full.split('');
};
this.setFirstName = (first) => {
    fullname[0] = first;
};
this.setLastName = (last) => {
    fullname[1] = last;
};

this.setFullName(firstAndLast);

this.getFullName = () => fullname.join('');

this.getFirstName = () => first[0];

this.getLastName = () => Last[1]; };

var bob = new Person(‘Bob Ross’);

bob.getFullName();

console.log(bob.getFullName());