We are going to play a game called FizzBuzz, Have you played the game before, if you haven’t no need to worry I will show you how. I can tell you for free that afterward you would love to play it and write a program code for it in your favorite programming language, it’s so enticing.
In this game we are going to start by counting from 1 and saying each number out loud but here is where the fun comes in when we get to a number that is a multiple of 3, instead of saying that number itself we say the word “Fizz!” And when we get to a number that is a multiple of 5 we say the word “Buzz!” if a number is then a multiple of both 3 and 5 we say the word “FizzBuzz!” cool right? I know.
My preferred language is Javascript so let's write a program to play the game using my language. Any programming will do the trick but I choose to use JS.
First, we need to tell the computer that we want to start the counting of numbers from 1. We can do that by creating a variable called count and setting it up with the value of 1.
let count = 1
Next, we need to write out the logic that will make our program say the numbers and FizzBuzz when appropriate. We can use a loop to go through all the numbers from 1 which is the count value to 100 (or any other number we wish to play up to). Inside the loop, we want to use an ‘IF” statement to check if the current number is a multiple of 3, 5, or both. If it is we can then use the “console.log” command to make the program say either “Fizz”, “Buzz” or “FizzBuzz”. Now let's write the code down
for(let count = 1; count <= 100; count++){
if(count % 3 === 0 && count % 5 === 0){
console.log("FizzBuzz");
} else if (count % 3 === 0){
console.log("Fizz");
} else if (count % 5 === 0){
console.log("Buzz");
} else {
console.log(count);
}
}
Our code is ready to be shipped by the power in 0’s and 1’s. Now when we run this program, our computer will play the FizzBuzz game for us! We can change the number we wish to play with by changing the number in the loop. For example, if we want to play up to 50, we can change the loop to:
for(let count = 1; count <= 50; count++){
//FizzBuzz Logic as above goes here
}
And that’s it, my fellow developers, we have just created a FizzBuzz game program that we can play using JavaScript. Have fun coding!