EloquentJS - Functions Excercise

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Minimum

Write a function min that takes two arguments and returns their minimum.

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function min(a,b){
	return a < b ? a :b
}

Recursion

Define a recursive function isEven corresponding to this description. The function should accept a number parameter and return a Boolean.

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function isEven(num){
	if(num == 0){
		return true;
	} else if (num ==1){
		return false;
    } else if ( num < 0 ){
		num = Math.abs(num)
	}
		return isEven(num-2);
}

Bean Counting

Write a function countBs that takes a string as its only argument and returns a number that indicates how many uppercase “B” characters are in the string.

Next, write a function called countChar that behaves like countBs, except it takes a second argument that indicates the character that is to be counted (rather than counting only uppercase “B” characters). Rewrite countBs to make use of this new function.

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function countBs(str){
	var counter = 0;
	for(var i = 0; i<str.length; i++){
    	if(str.charAt(i) == "B"){
        	counter ++;
		}
	}
	return counter;
}

function countChar(str, letter){
	var counter = 0;
	for(var i = 0; i<str.length; i++){
    	if(str.charAt(i) == letter){
        	counter ++;
		}
	}
	return counter;
}

//Rewrite function countBs
function countBs(str){
	return countChar(str, "B");
}