{"id":90,"date":"2024-10-02T03:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/rebecca-wordchuck\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:11:03","slug":"rebecca-wordchuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/rebecca-wordchuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordchuck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am teaching Rebecca some more programming by helping her make a word game called Wordchuck. It scrambles six letters, and you try to find the words hiding in them. Having a game to play together makes the programming more fun. There is a woodchuck, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wanted to work on breaking a problem into smaller jobs: choose the letters, shuffle them, build a guess, and check it against a dictionary. The behind-the-scenes part tries different letter arrangements to find the possible answers. That was a good chance to talk about solving a smaller version of the same problem. Clicking a letter also needs to remember that we have used it, even when two letters look the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rebecca-wordchuck-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Wordchuck&#039;s six letter buttons and hidden word list.\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rebecca-wordchuck-screenshot.png 320w, https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rebecca-wordchuck-screenshot-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studio.code.org\/projects\/applab\/VijMvGbwv0ETUWtDh6-JzYvU9CCFz1ExTDoJtmsLMSM\">Try Wordchuck on Code.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am teaching Rebecca some more programming by helping her make a word game called Wordchuck. It scrambles six letters, and you try to find the words hiding in them. Having a game to play together makes the programming more fun. There is a woodchuck, of course. I wanted to work on breaking a problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[73,5,3,25],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-with-kids","tag-code-org","tag-family","tag-javascript","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eric.tedjamulia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}