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This is awesome! Keep up the good work. As a fellow developer who began writing software around your age, I have some advice that is definitely subjective and biased, but which you may indeed find helpful. 1. Keep practicing. Practice makes perfect. Explore different languages, frameworks, and problem spaces (interfaces, servers, distributed systems, statistics, etc.) to see what you find most interesting. You will m…
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My assumption was that this was inserted as the generic response to having to deal with COPPA. Not sure if you're collecting information that would be afoul of that law.
I like how the array named 'map' reflects our original use of this word, rather than the special meaning which it has acquired to programmers. In Javascript and other languages 'map' has become a kind of "functional operation" so we cant call things 'map' anymore (in public). We have to say 'space' or 'state' or 'grid' or something... but I do still think 'map' was good. Congratulations on a very efficient and readab…
Hey looks good :)! Just a few things you might not know about: Google String.prototype.padEnd. It’s built in to JS and should be able to replace your zero fill function. And instead of mutating the ruleSet array you should be able to use Array.prototype.map like this: const ruleSet = zeroFill(8, rules.toString(2)) .split('') .reverse() .map(item => parseInt(item, 10)); And you can clone arrays like this, instead of u…
Good tips if you want your code to fail randomly on older devices.
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Thank you! I'm watching a lot of Youtube videos. This is how I got to cellular automata. My dad showed me git last week.
That's so freaking cool. Git rocks, and I remember how psyched I was when I learned about it. What's your next project?
I used blocklike.js to jump from Scratch to JavaScript. Then I worked for months on this one game for the app store called Sticky Quest. You can find it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sticky-quest/id1425679649?mt... This how I learned how to use npm packages such as Cordova and Eslint.
This is awesome liam. im just over twice your age and am just now writing game of life simulators.... man, what was i doing at 12???
Trust me, there can be downsides to starting early. In my case, I virtually skipped having social interactions not on the internet until I was around 20 or so. Not everyone will have this kind of affliction, but you can't have it all - you gotta choose what's important to you. I hope this doesn't come off as being too negative, I mostly say this because I think you should try to appreciate what you did learn rather t…
That was me, too. It was a trade-off for me. I was reading Hawking in primary school and there was no one to talk to, so I was feeling lonely.
Programming was my lifesaving straw, but I don't wish any kid the kind of isolation that I've felt in my youth. I had to learn many of the social stuff later in life so it evens out IMO.
That's awesome. What resources did you use to learn Node and JS? Just looked at your code. Kid. You're a badass. Keep this up, you'll go places.
Thank you! I'm watching a lot of Youtube videos. This is how I got to cellular automata. My dad showed me git last week.
Anyone else miss learning this quickly?
In all seriousness, congrats. Keep at it. There is always something else to learn. It's the career that never stops giving.
Good work. For a next step, I would suggest giving a try at breaking it up into multiple files using import/export statements (it doesn't need it but it's good practice), and using a bundler like Parcel to build the finished file. npm i --save-dev parcel-bundler ...then move your source JS files to a folder named src, and add to package.json... "scripts": { "prepare": "parcel --target node src/index.js" "start": " no…
That last thing a 12 year old needs is a complicated build toolchain.