Re:Breakout in 30 lines of JavaScript
by moron4hire on Monday November 18, 2013 @01:54PM
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I agree with your basic sentiment, but tiny toy programs for newbies to experiment with should DEFINITELY have readable variable names.
I've been programming for 15 years now and that Excel-like thinger taught me a thing or two, and it didn't take tearing it apart to figure out how it worked.
This game, and the Snake one from yesterday, didn't even go so far as to generate the DOM objects in a loop. That was another big part of how the Excel thinger worked, it wouldn't have been nearly as succinct without it.
Now, I can see using the HTML if there were significant text data you wanted to include, e.g. text-adventure room descriptions, but this just seems like they're focusing on the "30 lines" part of the challenge and not the "super-dynamic" part.
I've been programming for 15 years now and that Excel-like thinger taught me a thing or two, and it didn't take tearing it apart to figure out how it worked.
This game, and the Snake one from yesterday, didn't even go so far as to generate the DOM objects in a loop. That was another big part of how the Excel thinger worked, it wouldn't have been nearly as succinct without it.
Now, I can see using the HTML if there were significant text data you wanted to include, e.g. text-adventure room descriptions, but this just seems like they're focusing on the "30 lines" part of the challenge and not the "super-dynamic" part.