# Resistor Color If you want to build something using a Raspberry Pi, you'll probably use _resistors_. For this exercise, you need to know two things about them: * Each resistor has a resistance value. * Resistors are small - so small in fact that if you printed the resistance value on them, it would be hard to read. To get around this problem, manufacturers print color-coded bands onto the resistors to denote their resistance values. Each band has a position and a numeric value. The first 2 bands of a resistor have a simple encoding scheme: each color maps to a single number. In this exercise you are going to create a helpful program so that you don't have to remember the values of the bands. These colors are encoded as follows: - Black: 0 - Brown: 1 - Red: 2 - Orange: 3 - Yellow: 4 - Green: 5 - Blue: 6 - Violet: 7 - Grey: 8 - White: 9 The goal of this exercise is to create a way: - to look up the numerical value associated with a particular color band - to list the different band colors Mnemonics map the colors to the numbers, that, when stored as an array, happen to map to their index in the array: Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Values Go Wrong. More information on the color encoding of resistors can be found in the [Electronic color code Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code) Although the color names are capitalised in the description, the function colorCode will always be called with the lowercase equivalent, e.g brown instead of Brown ## Setup Go through the setup instructions for Javascript to install the necessary dependencies: [https://exercism.io/tracks/javascript/installation](https://exercism.io/tracks/javascript/installation) ## Requirements Please `cd` into exercise directory before running all below commands. Install assignment dependencies: ```bash $ npm install ``` ## Making the test suite pass Execute the tests with: ```bash $ npm test ``` In the test suites all tests but the first have been skipped. Once you get a test passing, you can enable the next one by changing `xtest` to `test`. ## Submitting Solutions Once you have a solution ready, you can submit it using: ```bash exercism submit resistor-color.js ``` ## Submitting Incomplete Solutions It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise. ## Exercise Source Credits Maud de Vries, Erik Schierboom [https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1458](https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/issues/1458)