Warmup

As warmup, let's being with some simple questions.

The comments data is imported as data.comments.

How many people have submitted comments?

// TODO: write code to answer this question
return data.comments.length

There are 26 submissions.

Who is the first person submitting a comment?

We can get the data of the first comment by

// TODO: use lodash's method instead of direct array access via [0]
return _.first(data.comments)

The result is

{
 "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/comments/133203904",
 "html_url": "https://github.com/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1#issuecomment-133203904",
 "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bigdatahci2015/forum/issues/1",
 "id": 133203904,
 "user": {
  "login": "willzfarmer",
  "id": 546524,
  "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/546524?v=3",
  "gravatar_id": "",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/willzfarmer",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/willzfarmer/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "site_admin": false
 },
 "created_at": "2015-08-20T22:39:50Z",
 "updated_at": "2015-08-20T22:39:50Z",
 "body": "Name: William Farmer\r\nMajor: Applied Math w/ Minor in Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: Python\r\nFavorite Food: Sushi"
}

The person's name is willzfarmer.

What is willzfarmer's favorite food?

We will need to parse the comment to retrieve this data.

The comment text is

"Name: William Farmer\r\nMajor: Applied Math w/ Minor in Computer Science\r\nFavorite Programming Language: Python\r\nFavorite Food: Sushi"

The code to retrieve the data about the favorite food is (hint: use split()).

var text = _.first(data.comments).body
console.log(text)
var comment = text.split('\n'); 
console.log(comment)
var foodComment = _.last(comment);
console.log(foodComment)
var food = _.last(foodComment.split(': '))
console.log(food)

// TODO: add code to process text to get the person's favorite food

return food

So, willzfarmer's favorite food is Sushi.