Today’s exercise was Regular Chatbot which was an introduction to regular expressions. Years ago I was rather skittish around regular expressions. Thanks to time, practice and regex101.com, I am far more confident. Still they really should have gone over regular[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today’s exercism exercise was Translation Service and was all about Promises. I have never been good a promises in Javascript. Today’s exercise did not improve that. I eventually got something working but it was messy and sub-optimal. It also[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Javascript exercise was Factor Sensors which was about throwing, catching, and creating custom errors. Pretty good one. It is the weekend so I got some more time to work on Minesweeper. I decided I needed to tackle the API[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was Ozan’s Playlist. This was an introduction to the Set datatype. For minesweeper all I got was a hacked together about box showing.
Today’s exercise, Windowing System was about classes both normal and prototype based. I had a bad time on this one. The test harness wouldn’t run any of my classes. I finally turned it in just to look at the community[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercise was custom-signs which was all about template strings and ternary operators (a one-line if statement). It went pretty quick. They explained that you could embed multiple lines in one template string, so I did that. You have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Poor Elyse, exercism is running her ragged. She has been the focus of half the exercises so far. Give her some time to catch her breath. Anyway today’s exercise was about array higher order functions again. Didn’t realize the three-triplicating[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another easy exercise just using a for item in list loop, and a forEach loop with a callback function. Not hard but as expected I saw at least one community solution that had to show off their skill and do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Todays exercise was about callbacks. Truthfully it just felt like we were calling already defined functions. Probably could have set that one up better. For minesweeper I did go back and add in the settings table (without a tutorial) and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s exercism exercise was Coordinate Transformation which involved closures specifically returning functions that process data using data from the enclosing function call. Pretty cool, I don’t think you can do that easily in other languages. Not sure if I will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…