I’ve been doing codecademy.com’s javascript course and am really slayin’ it!
Month: October 2014
Dice Rolling Web App
So I took the basic random number generator I introduced in my last post and made it into a full fledged web app. You can see it on my github site: dhornbein.github.io/sandbox/rngesus.html The code can be seen within my github.com repository The site has a simple number input where you can set the number of sides. Then …
I’ve created a virtual die!
I’ve been studying Javascript on codecademy.com and was inspired to make a virtual dice today! var diceRoll = function(number){ return Math.floor(Math.random()*number + 1) } It might not look like much but it creates a function called diceRoll, which I can add any number of sides to and it will output a random number from 1 …
Confucius:
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
Keeping the Initiative 先手
I’ve been watching videos about Go in an effort to learn the game. One of the terms, taken from Japanese, is “sente” (先手), or “initiative”. It stands in opposition to “gote” (後手), literally “after hand”, refers to having to place the “succeeding move”. This is an undesirable situation to be in. When your adversary has sente they are in control …
What I did today
We discussed goals last week and it inspired me to set some concert goals, which I wrote about on my personal blog. I showed jackie and Jurr the basics of wordpress, we talked about the WordPress core, PHP, and general information about servers and how they serve files. I worked on some codecademy.com javascript and completed a rock, paper, scissors …