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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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I bet you're fun at social gatherings.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#23I cant tell what my charge level is. This is crazy though, congrats... Look at the blog to see how he did it mostly using ai. It looks like the dad set it up like a series of challenges to get the kid familiar w using ai then he was able to make a game. Nice work!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#24Great work, I bet you're a very proud parent!
Echoing the other comment - as a tired dad, I struggle with the Math questions :)
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#25Very cool. One of the attacks was blocked due to insufficient charge. Has he considered a charging status indicator e.g., bar or countdown timer?
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#26Amazing. Younger people (and people new in any field) often think of intersting approaches without the blessing/curse of "best practices." The process for creating the game was very good and very logical way to learn a new field.
I would recommend a couple of small things for the code. Variable names are usually ALL_CAPS if they never change (for instance const PI =3.142) and camelCaseForOtherVariables. snake_case_variables aren't really used in JavaScript, but aren't technically wrong. Also, it's usually good to put variables into nested data structures with hashmaps instead of comparing based upon array index. This is in "the real world" though, in academic computer science algorithms based on position in lists are more common.
If you want to get what we call "Code Review" a good way would be to feed your source code into a LLM to have the LLM give feedback based on your code, and recommend improvements. Most people like Claude best for dealing with code nowadays.
I would also recommend putting your code on Github so that people can check it out.
Very impressive!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#27Could have a virtual numpad
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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It would have been a great game in 1998 when plain javascript was what everyone was using. But OP has clearly put a lot of effort in and still gotten not-great results because they aren't making use of more modern tooling (game engines etc) to turn each hour of effort into more productivity.
... or perhaps OP has gotten not-great results because _they are a small child_.
Children do not need to "turn each hour of effort into more productivity". They need to learn stuff (and feel good about their learning, so they keep doing it).
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#29Great strongbad vibes for some reason. I loved it!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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Wait what? No this is interesting because it was built by a 9 year old using ai.