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My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Post by sumedh »

wbpayne wrote: post #199

This is really neat. I'm happy that you're encouraging your son to program at such a young age. It really helps to build computer skills to immerse yourself from your early years. I started learning programming using QBasic on my computer at the age of 6. I now know several programming languages and am the go-to person in my friend group for computer help of all kinds. I wish your son the best on his adventures in le…

What do kids learn these days as their first programming language?

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Post by noufalibrahim »

This is very nice. Love the sprites. Thanks for the information on Piskel. Some possible "enhancements"

1. Give us an indication on when the weapons are charged. Change in colour perhaps?

2. Might be nice to show what the problem the opponent worked on is and what its result was so that we know.

3. It might also be nice to put the sums solved so far in some kind of list at the bottom so that you can see what happened.

4. The HP bar can change colour as the health goes down. Would add some more excitement to the game. :)

5. Minor typo "chose" your move instead of "choose your move"

I've been working through https://www.amazon.in/JavaScript-Kids-Playful-Introduction-P... with my own son. He's 12. I encouraged him to put the exercises he made onto a site as well as some of the things he wanted to do by himself. We've reached the chapters on the canvas element so more things will be coming. Right now, it's mostly jquery and some custom logic.

His site is up at https://mskv.in/ and if the folks here have feedback, I'd be very happy to receive it and pass it on to him.

On a separate note, it was so liberating to watch him just solve things the way he wanted without worrying about patterns, libraries and stuff. So much of my professional time these days is spent with things like that.

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Post by noufalibrahim »

ufmace wrote: post #237

Curious how you did deployment. On the one hand, giving him his own live server on the net seems cool, but that's a bunch more technologies to learn in order to deploy. On the other hand, seems like it would take away from the independence of the project to be like, nice work, I'll put this on the net for you.

I've been doing something similar with my son. I set up a domain for him with an ssh key. He does his coding in a directory on a computer and has an "rsync ..." line which copies everything to his website. It's not fool proof but works so far. https://mskv.in/ is his site.

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Post by andretti1977 »

Nothing more to add to what has been said ("charging" enhancement is the top one feature needed), this is a great work!

I simply wanted to share with you how proud would i be if my 9 yo child made such a similar game and wanted to thank you for inspiration since it's a few months i'm thinking to teach him the basic of programming even if i don't want him to focus on computers and screens in general.

I wrote my first assembly routine when i was only 7 on my commodore64 (thinking of it today i'm really really amazed!) but today our world is different and i think today we must try to keep our children away as much as we can from tech stuff so this is what is keeping me away from teaching him coding.

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