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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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Post by shepmaster »

I hope Grandma has some analytics hooked up to see all the traffic coming in!

A small bug report: the "Share score" button on macOS Safari doesn't offer "copy" as an option for some reason. The same functionality on guess the game[0] has the same limitation, but it also copies to the clipboard automatically. Wordle[1] seems to just copy to the clipboard only.

[0]: https://guessthe.game

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by icambron »

Fannon wrote: post #8
thrdbndndn wrote: post #7

Is this a bug? https://i.imgur.com/b5HqHeA.png Vodka should not be below voice.

Is it always the same word? My word is between Vodka and Vomit :D

It’s like wordle: different word every day and everyone gets it. At least that’s what the text says once you get it.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by midnitewarrior »

Good gameplay! The one strong suggestion I have is to limit the word list to a category that uses common words. I had to resort to look at the word list dictionary in the console to see the possible words, and many of the words were extremely obscure.

I would come up with categories of increasing difficulty. "Colors", "Advanced Colors", "Common Fruit", "All Fruit", etc.

The game mechanic is great and worked flawlessly though!

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by doytch »

Reading 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 :))

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by seeknotfind »

doytch wrote: post #15

Reading 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 :))

One reason programmers do this is so that they can make a one character change, e.g. "else if (1 === 1)" -> "else if (1 === 2)" in order to change the logic there. For C programers you see a lot of '#if 0' '#if 1' for this same purpose. Though, given that it's used everywhere, I'm not sure if it's really for that purpose.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by layer8 »

There 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.

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