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Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

yes

yes, lat element less than size elements

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

@AdventureBear I solved your problem :) Reply if you want help okay ??

Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

ooh yes pleeeeeze!!!

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

can I give you the solution code ?? Or some hints ??

@AdventureBear Is it okay here to share solutions ??

Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

yes there is no restriction or code of conduct prohibiting. FCC is a self-guided learning resource and pairing is encouraged. that's my understanding

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

 function chunk(arr, size) {
  // Break it up.
  var myArr = [] ;

  while( true )
  if (arr.length > size) {
    myArr.push(arr.splice(0, size)) ;
  }
  else {
    myArr.push(arr) ;
    break ;
  }
  return myArr ;
}

chunk(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'], 2);

Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

whoa, splicing an array???

I never would have looked for that.

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

the splice method dynamically reduces the array and returns the elements as an array itself.

Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

that must be the key to this challenge!

so once it's splice, push takes care of the rest?

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

So ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'].splice(0, 2 ) returns ['a', 'b']

After that ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] reduce down to [ 'c', 'd'] as I spliced it out and returned it

Suzanne Atkinson

@AdventureBear

so simple

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

The first argument of splice is the index of element in the array that you want to start and the second argument is the index one less of which is desired

So for ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'].splice(0, 2 ) first index is 0th index and 2nd index is 2 - 1th i.e. 1

@AdventureBear After that , we just simply push the spliced index into our result index

Nathan

@terakilobyte

I’d prefer you share hints

lead the person to self discovery

unless the answer is just right there

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

@AdventureBear Here is the MDN documentation for splice
Splice

Danny Fritz

@dannyfritz

Do any of the challenges focus on debugging js?

Cristián Berríos

@crisberrios

@AdventureBear your method was good though. Many ways to achieve the same. You could have used map, even reduce, or a recursive function.

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

@terakilobyte Yeah. But @AdventureBear was struggling for many hours. That's why I shared the code with her.

Nathan

@terakilobyte

@dannyfritz none currently

though it would be awesome if we got a pull request with 15-30 challenges that did… ;) ;)

console.log-ging fully works in the sandbox

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

Okay friends. Good Night . 1:30 AM here. Byee :)

Cristián Berríos

@crisberrios

@Sudeepto

 function chunk(arr, size) {
  // Break it up.
  var myArr = [] ;

  while( true )
  if (arr.length > size) {
    myArr.push(arr.splice(0, size)) ;
  }
  else {
    myArr.push(arr) ;
    break ;
  }
  return myArr ;
}

var a = [];
a[1000] = 'hey';
chunk(a, 2);

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

@crisberrios Sorry. I use Python the most . So my mindset is geared towards it a bit. That's why I never thought of this particular condition. Direct initialization from an arbitrary index is valid in JS but invalid in Python :P

Cristián Berríos

@crisberrios

hehe don't worry, I'm still trying to change mi mindset from C/C# to JS

Sudeepto

@Sudeepto

@crisberrios Will think about it though. But for now . Buenas Noches :) Adiós

Cristián Berríos

@crisberrios

goodnight!

Nathan

@terakilobyte

JS is the awesome. Better object model than a class oriented language (imo), functions are first class citizens, closure support… it’s just dreamy

and with es6 and support for tail recursion….

not sure what else you could ask for in a programming language

maybe pointers

that’d be pretty cool

Danny Fritz

@dannyfritz

@terakilobyte when i say debugging. i mean using the dev tools in chrome or other browsers, not console.log. :P

Nathan

@terakilobyte

the way bonfire works I’m not sure that’s possible, though it may be

Danny Fritz

@dannyfritz

put a debugger; statement in a bonfire and see what happens. ;)

ah, it hits the statement and shows it in the debugger, but the sandbox times out.

http://i.imgur.com/7IznLAB.png

Cristián Berríos

@crisberrios

better reflection

but with es6 things surely got better

well, back to work. putting together an input form for my assigned project

Nathan

@terakilobyte

@dannyfritz yeah the sandbox will be destroyed after 3 seconds

I might be able to write a debug mode for it

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