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Re: Ask HN: What are projects I can implement to learn a new framwework?

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Post by taurath » Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 7:55 AM UTC

bzalasky wrote: post #10

To borrow from an article I read earlier today ( http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-q... )... how would you enable two people to play turn based (and/or realtime) monopoly (or chess, or any other game) over the web? This will almost certainly be more complicated on the front-end than most apps you'll need to build, and complicated enough on the back-end to be non-trivial.

It seems fairly trivial from the back end - it depends really how much you want to deter cheaters. Assuming you're playing with friends, why not just have it all in the frontend and just transmit move orders and chance/community chest cards via a websocket?

Re: Ask HN: What are projects I can implement to learn a new framwework?

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Post by taurath » Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 7:57 AM UTC

fcanela wrote: post #5

There is some projects that I usually do to get a feeling of the framework: - Code snippets/tasks manager. Pure CRUD. If you want to get yourself dirty: add authentication. - A blog (like SEJeff suggested). If you want to get yourself dirty: try to make it multilingual with SEO. - Syllabication app. Helps me to find how business logic is best placed into app mindset. I have to go, but if you need more examples just s…

Multilingual blogs? Are you talking autotranslation a-la the Azure/Google translate APIs?

Re: Ask HN: What are projects I can implement to learn a new framwework?

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Post by bzalasky » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 8:56 AM UTC

taurath wrote: post #11

bzalasky wrote: post #10

To borrow from an article I read earlier today ( http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/06/my-favourite-interview-q... )... how would you enable two people to play turn based (and/or realtime) monopoly (or chess, or any other game) over the web? This will almost certainly be more complicated on the front-end than most apps you'll need to build, and complicated enough on the back-end to be non-trivial.

It seems fairly trivial from the back end - it depends really how much you want to deter cheaters. Assuming you're playing with friends, why not just have it all in the frontend and just transmit move orders and chance/community chest cards via a websocket?

It's an open ended question with lots of jumping off points to talk about implementation details and design. And as far as the backend being trivial (it may well be), if a candidate said that in an interview, I'd ask them to walk through how they'd roll their own WebSocket solution. With a different candidate it could jump off into a UI focused discussion. Lots of possibilities.

Re: Ask HN: What are projects I can implement to learn a new framwework?

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Post by taurath » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 11:29 PM UTC

bzalasky wrote: post #13

taurath wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems fairly trivial from the back end - it depends really how much you want to deter cheaters. Assuming you're playing with friends, why not just have it all in the frontend and just transmit move orders and chance/community chest cards via a websocket?

It's an open ended question with lots of jumping off points to talk about implementation details and design. And as far as the backend being trivial (it may well be), if a candidate said that in an interview, I'd ask them to walk through how they'd roll their own WebSocket solution. With a different candidate it could jump off into a UI focused discussion. Lots of possibilities.

Its "trivial" in the sense that with almost all the logic on the client (think of something made like a flash game) you'd need only a few core elements (auth, page hosting, user identities or not) on the server, while the majority of the work would be for the client. There's lots of features you might want such as matchmaking, valid move checking and tracking, but it depends on the scope of the project to begin with of course!