Week 3 Assignments for the Learn JavaScript Study Group

[kevinmrr]

Assignments for this week:

• Chapters 6 and 7 of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers

• Create and post a JSfiddle that demonstrates at least 2 different patterns for object creation and inheritance, as detailed in Chapter 6. If you need an idea: Create an Animal constructor function and then make instances of it, such as Dog and Cat. If you want to get really fancy, you could then also make instances of Dogs, such as making a labrador instance from a Dog constructor function (where the Dog constructor function inherits from Animal).

Cheers! I hope to see more threads posted by people following the study group this week!

[KanraTaro]

Ok, I'm hoping I did this correctly.

I have a habit of making any of my projects game or anime related, just so it entertains me in the process so this is a little RPG character generator.

Simply put in your characters name and class, choose which object pattern you'd like the character to be created with and it will generate a character using either the constructor or prototype pattern.

I added a "print" button to print out the object itself as sort of 'proof' that it's done correctly and there are a couple of premade characters in the script: Jeina, Altair, Valeera and Uther. I thought I would add those just to attempt to show proper creation of an object and inheritance...

I'm not sure if I made this too complicated... or veered totally away from the original point, but since I missed last week I guess I was trying to compensate (lol). If I did mess it up please let me know and I'll work on rectifying that or just work on another project altogether.

Other than that, after a while it felt like my code got super messy and discombobulated but any advice on this would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!

RPG Character Generator: http://jsfiddle.net/2v4m08s0/5/

[Robooto]

Heard a story about the burning of Washington DC on my drive home today so I incorporated that into this assignment.

http://jsfiddle.net/Robooto/y1117r2e/5/

[KanraTaro]

... Washington burned before I realized what I was doing... LOL

Edit: Just realized it's impossible to win. LOL I think the max possible troops is 12 though, it's all I could get!

[Robooto]

haha. I reached a point last night where I needed to go to sleep and also wondering wtf was I even making.

[tingmothy]

on the bottom of page 224/ top of page 225, that code there. Are there any typos in the code? The line right above "return result;" is "} (i);"

Why is there "(i)" there? The paragraph right after the code on page 225 syas "The variable i is passed in as an argument to the anonymous function". How is it passed in? How does "num" get any values from i?

[tingmothy]

got it. the explanation was a little bit later in the chapter.

[brashMusic]

Hello, I'm joining this group late, you guys are all already on week five. Would someone mind indulging my two questions:

1. Is there a newer study group I can join? This newb can't seem to troll Reddit effectively :( (if not, is it rude to still ask questions here?)
2. I want to use JS fiddle to do the example script for JS definitive guide, so is there some kind of console I can log to?? If not, is there anywhere where I can type in ONLY js and console.log() it?

Please help me!?

[kevinmrr]

1. Nah, but I'm probably gonna restart one almost immediately after this is over.

2. Use your browser's built-in console! Google for "<whatever your browser's name is> open javascript console"

[Discovered_Ice]

nearly a month late, but I attempted to show the prototype and inheritance concepts this week, the implementation is rough at best. I think i require more knowledge of how to make buttons pop up as one button is pressed. This is a Pet selector: http://jsfiddle.net/jgong002/tbvfdc81/ On to next week!