Olivia's JS-Scrabble

[secretsharer]

JS Scrabble

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What patterns were you able to use from your Ruby knowledge to apply to JavaScript?	The basic understanding of building a code block, iteration, objects.
What was a challenge you were able to overcome on this assignment?	Syntactical differences, functions living and being called in all manner of places, repetitive syntax, having challenges of understanding constructor, vs. class-like objects, and vs prototypes.
What is your favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	it has given me a grasp/context of my ability to apply the knowledge i've learned in the first language. Plus, it's new!!
What is your least favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	The screeching hauls that is me just trying to get it. I'm SLOW...but thorough!
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Noop.
I want to add that I challenged myself to ask for as little help as possible, which was great because it forced me to rely on docs much more, I ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND everything I wrote, and not so great because I really could have used the help. It's 10pm and I'm submitting a pull request, and as of Time.now, I haven't finished the console.log/gameplay/testing.

[CheezItMan]

Should this be totalScore += playScrabble.score(word);

[CheezItMan]

JS Scrabble

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Check
Comprehension questions	Check, it's good that you were able to accomplish it on your own and understand all your code. Get some sleep!
General
score calculates score, has appropriate params and return value	Check, but there are some problems here. I left an inline note in your code.
highestScoreFrom calculates highest scoring word, has appropriate params and return value	Check
Player object
Has name and plays properties	Check
Has play, totalScore, hasWon functions	The play method should also return false if the player has already won and not add the word in that case.
Has highestScoringWord and highestWordScore functions	You should reuse the highestScoringWord method instead of doing a loop in highestWordScore.
Overall	A lot of progress here. Nice work, a few things to look at especially your score function.

[CheezItMan]

Some things to look at here.

[CheezItMan]

The end of this function should probably go from:

if (word.length > 6)
var wordscore = word.score + 50;
 };
 return wordscore;
 }

To:

  if (word.length > 6)
    points  += 50;
  return points;
};

[CheezItMan]

You can call highestScoringWord and use Scrabble.score in this method instead of the loop.