Assignments
Codecademy – Week 13 (04/17/2017)
The tutorials on Codecademy were effective in acquainting me with the basics of JavaScript, such as using mathematical operators; writing comments; using conditional statements; creating and using variables; and creating and using functions. Many aspects of it seemed like a review because of the similiarities in syntax between JavaScript and PHP.
By using methods like prompt and confirm, web pages allow a certain degree of interactivity with end-users by taking their inputs, manipulating them in some way, and outputting meaningful results. This was most evident in the final lesson, in which I created a rock-paper-scissors game that pits a user against the computer. The user is able to type in the hand he wishes to play, which is then evaluated against a randomly generated hand by the computer. Although simple, the example shows the possibilities of using JavaScript to boost web page interactivity.
Below are the Codecademy achievement badges I earned for completing the tutorials, as well as a screenshot of the rock-paper-scissors game (click thumbnail to view full size image).
W3Schools – Week 14 (04/24/2017)
The W3Schools tutorial reinforced the ideas introduced in the Codecademy lessons and also taught me some new functionalities of JavaScript, like providing end-users with a way to transform HTML elements of a web page (e.g., with a button). One particularly useful aspect of W3Schools' approach to teaching JavaScript was showing the complete HTML source of a sample page, which allowed me to have a better understanding of the way JavaScript integrates with HTML code.
Below is the result from the W3Schools quiz, which demonstrates that I possess basic knowledge of JavaScript (click thumbnails to view full size images).
