My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by peeters on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:14PM (#42314438)

Awesome job! If you want him to get some experience with bug fixing, I found one: ask him what happens if you click on an attack and then hit escape (it cancels the attack but still charges up your attacks, so you can get to full charge on your first attack)

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by veesahni on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:15PM (#42314446)

yikes! thanks for the bug report

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by peeters on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:17PM (#42314457)

oh not "yikes" at all I totally peaked at the code to try to find one for him. I feel like bug fixing at that age is a fun exercise; it gets you thinking more laterally about the program you're writing.

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by matt3210 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:35PM (#42314518)

No jira?

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by veesahni on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:39PM (#42314528)

for v1 (this version) the task list was just paper and pencil

for v2 he's organizing himself using trello :)

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by rswail on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:16AM (#42314885)

In the spirit of Dijkstra's quote on teaching BASIC, learning "Agile" is damaging beyond recognition. :)

Kanban boards, on the other hand, are "agile". /s

Congratulations to him on his first "real" program, I was 13 in 1977 when I started (with BASIC for my sins :) )

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by soulchild77 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:03AM (#42315091)

After 25 years of professional development experience my favorite task lists are still and will always be paper and pencil. ;-)

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by veesahni on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @07:30AM (#42316786)

my daily list is still just paper. There's satisfaction in striking out finished items :)

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Re:My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, ... by sensanaty on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @06:35AM (#42316513)

For the sake of your child, please keep him away from any and all AGILE based workflows! Such devious contraptions were not meant for the pure of soul

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