CSP Unit 4 Lesson 10 AP Practice Question

[twilliams2]

I have a student asking why the answer is School day. I would appreciate help with an explanation that they will understand.

[bhatnagars]

1. day_of_week is first assigned a value of “Saturday”.
2. Next statement replaced that value with “Monday”. The value “Saturday” is garbaged!
3. So now, since the day_of_week is neither “Saturday” nor “Sunday”, the if condition is false.
4. The else part is executed, function weekday is called which displays “School day”.

[twilliams2]

Thank you so much! This is exactly my thinking but i guess my brain was on overload because I just couldn’t put it to words! I appreciate your help.

Terra

@bhatnagars

• day_of_week is first assigned a value of “Saturday” .
• Next statement replaced that value with “Monday” . The value “Saturday” is garbaged!
• So now, since the day_of_week is neither “Saturday” nor “Sunday” , the if condition is false .
• The else part is executed, function weekday is called which displays “School day”.