Counting Words

Let's Count Words! 🔢

Back to Splitting ✂️

let sentence = 'I love my dog';
let words = sentence.split(' ');
console.log(words);

How Long is the List? 📏

let words = ['I', 'love', 'my', 'dog'];
console.log('Number of words: ' + words.length);

Count Any Sentence 🎯

let sentence = 'coding is super fun';
let words = sentence.split(' ');
console.log('This sentence has ' + words.length + ' words! 🎉');

Try a Short One 🐝

let sentence = 'hello world';
let words = sentence.split(' ');
console.log('Words: ' + words.length);

Try a Long One 🦕

let sentence = 'the big brown bear ran up the tall green hill';
let words = sentence.split(' ');
console.log('This long sentence has ' + words.length + ' words!');

Make a Counter Machine 🛠️

function countWords(sentence) {
  let words = sentence.split(' ');
  return words.length;
}
console.log(countWords('I am a coder'));
console.log(countWords('yes'));

Use Your Machine 🤖

function countWords(sentence) {
  return sentence.split(' ').length;
}
console.log('Words: ' + countWords('the cat sat on the mat'));
console.log('Words: ' + countWords('coding rocks'));

A Friendly Report 📊

function countWords(sentence) {
  let count = sentence.split(' ').length;
  console.log('📝 Your sentence: ' + sentence);
  console.log('🔢 Word count: ' + count + ' words!');
}
countWords('learning to code is awesome');

Count Three Sentences 📚

function countWords(sentence) {
  return sentence.split(' ').length;
}
console.log('A: ' + countWords('hi there'));
console.log('B: ' + countWords('one two three four'));
console.log('C: ' + countWords('word'));

You Can Count Words! 🏆

Quick Check ✅

Lesson Recap 🎀