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Comment on Hackathon, Day 2 by Chris R

Chris R — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:38:10 +0000

Hah. Good plan; don’t bite off an excess of stuff. It’s enough, sometimes, to make a minimal prototype.

Anyway, awesomesauce; I look forward to seeing it sometime.

Comment on Hackathon, Day 2 by adyrbye

adyrbye — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:02:32 +0000

In reply to Chris R.

Heya, Chris! Challenge is a good word for it. At this point, I’ve realized I’m going to have to scale back dramatically. Even the pared-down version of the D&D Essentials ruleset I’d been working from is proving too cumbersome now that I’m at the point of defining functions to govern interactions. It would probably be doable if I had a team to work with, but c’est la vie.
I am indeed aiming for in-browser JavaScript. It’s a learning exercise for right now – I’m still figuring out object-oriented programming, never mind JavaScript – so I haven’t given much thought to persistence beyond sticking it on a server. I’ll be happy if I can get one room working; anything more is icing. :p

Comment on Hackathon, Day 2 by Chris R

Chris R — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:32:12 +0000

I’m impressed; game development, and especially the challenge of setting goals for it, never ceases to impress me with the challenge involved.

How are you planning to implement it? In-browser javascript? What sort of backend for persistence are you thinking of?

Comment on JavaScript, PHP and Planning my First Solo Project by adyrbye

adyrbye — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:59:43 +0000

In reply to Tiji.

Hello Tiji,

I’m not surprised that console.log behaves differently than I’ve assessed it.

This blog is for me to think aloud about my learning process, and I fully expect that I’ll have to adjust my expectations as I gain more experience. I’ll likely do a retrospective in a few weeks, laying out the difference between my initial impressions and JavaScript’s actual syntax and behaviours.

Until the print resources I’ve ordered arrive, all I have to go from is the Codecademy tutorials I’m working through, where console.log is used in a directly analogous fashion to print/echo in PHP.

Comment on JavaScript, PHP and Planning my First Solo Project by Tiji

Tiji — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:51:05 +0000

Hi Amy,
The Javascript equivalent of PHP’s echo would be document.write .. Console.log is to log the data in the console object. You can see everything logged in console under the console tab of Firebug, Chrome developer tools or the similar versions of other browsers.