I have been teaching Rebecca some programming with a game she already knows: tic-tac-toe. We built this one together in App Lab. Knowing the rules is the easy part. Getting the computer to follow all of them gives us something fun to figure out together. I wanted to practice keeping track of whose turn it […]
Somebody posted the challenge to change one letter in a book title and ruin it. Naturally, I decided the computer should help come up with the bad suggestions. The page has an embedded dictionary and a small JavaScript search. For each word in the title, it tries replacing one character at a time with another […]
Rebecca loves programming, so I have been teaching her some JavaScript by making little projects together in Code.org. A drawing app is a fun place to start because she can see something happen right away. This version has different brushes, a size slider, and a custom color picker. I wanted to work on events and […]
For our family Kids Day, I made a digital scavenger hunt. Riddle Quest starts with the kids and Mizzet waking up in a secret base in the sky. Getting home is going to take a little more work than finding the front door. I used RPG Maker MV again, but the focus here is on […]
I made the kids an RPG starring our cat. Mizzet wakes up hungry and goes looking for food, which seems like a fairly accurate starting point for a cat adventure. Things get a little more complicated from there. This one uses RPG Maker MV, so the game runs in a browser with the engine’s JavaScript […]
Here is a little dictionary experiment: give every letter a number, with A equal to 1 and Z equal to 26, and add up each word. I wanted to see which words landed on multiples of 26. The page carries a big word list right in the HTML. JavaScript walks through it, skips entries containing […]
I made a little Jeopardy game for my Sunday school class. A blue board full of dollar amounts seemed like a more interesting way to review the lesson than just asking the questions one at a time. Everything is in one HTML file: the board, the styling, and a JavaScript array of questions, answers, and […]
Daniel really likes maps, so I made him a little game for learning countries. It highlights a country in blue, gives him some names to choose from, and keeps track of how many answers he gets right. The map is SVG, which makes the browser do a lot of the useful work. Each country is […]
I played with the web video remote again and gave it a few more things to do. In addition to Play and Pause, it can slow the video down, speed it up, or jump back ten seconds. Sometimes rewind is the most useful button on a remote. It still uses a very small PHP mailbox […]
I keep making little bookmarklets and then forgetting the annoying part of turning JavaScript into a usable Favorites link. So I made a page to do that part for me. Paste in the script and it builds a link with the javascript: prefix, along with the address text to copy. The code squeezes out some […]
