JavaScript- let showing name instead of value

Question

I am a beginner and Started learning JavaScript today. I tried from a tutorial:

let a = 1 console.log('a')

Now,when I run it, the answer should be the value which is 1, but it shows me the name instead which is a.

What I am doing wrong?? I am using VsCode and console from chrome to see the results..

I tried:

let a = 1 console.log('a')

Google console shows me a instead of 1.

Answer 1

When you do, let a = 1;

It creates a variable (named a) that is holding the value 1.

Now, in order to access the value stored in a, you must do:

console.log(a)

You are doing console.log('a')

The above statement prints out the character 'a' onto the console. Because whatever inside the console.log() is a string, and strings are directly logged onto the console.

You can fix this by writing:

console.log(a); Its output will be 1, because you have stored 1 in a.