I read the domain name as Grandma Sword. Maybe her next project :)
Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#42Very cool.
My own 74 year old surviving parent would never be able to get them selves to even try, as they have spent most of their lives telling reiterating a mantra about how little they know about technology.
It has been a guiding principle of mine to never do that with anything, after seeing the effect it has had on her.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#43Would adding an indicator of how many letters I've gotten correct / "locked in" be fun? I don't know if I'm supposed to be trying a new 2nd or 3rd letter after V.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#44There is some bug in the sorting, because it sorted “vol” after “volatile” for me. It seems to depend on some previous state, though, because I couldn’t reproduce it in a new window. Edit: See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217457 .
It seems the previous guess is always placed either one up or one down from the entry box. So if you're guessing "V" words, then type "apple", then "apple" will show after "vodka". So the list is not getting re-alphabatized.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#45Reading the code is a joy. I love seeing different approaches to what we all take as givens, such as design.css rather than style.css, or the usage of an `else if (1 == 1)` compared to `else` or even `else if (true)`. (So I guess, thanks for not teaching her about bundlers and minifiers yet :))
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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade]
I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help? Another bet, you can't program without the help of online resources and/or a chatbot either.
* given the dates on your resume, there's a very good chance I'm correct in this
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#47"voi-" was sorted before "vog-" by the way!
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Aside from the other comments, it could be the case she's using a deployment tool that does this for her.
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> About the game: somewhat fun but if you don't know the word, that's it. No really any way to figure out in a rewarding way. What does this mean? You could say the same thing about Wordle.
I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.
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> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade] I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help? Another bet, you can't program without the help of online resources and/or a chatbot either. * given the dates on your resume, there's a very good chance I'm correct in this
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