Carets- Julia Meier

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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?	I was able to apply the same logic of loops and conditional statements, as well as calling other methods to DRY up code.
What was a challenge you were able to overcome on this assignment?	I was having issues with understanding how the "return" works in JavaScript vs. in Ruby inside an anonymous function. I was able to figure out how to pass values to a variable that could return the value outside the inner anonymous function.
What is your favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	I like how I start thinking through the logic in a different language, and "translate" in my head against other programming languages I've learned. After working on the project, I noticed that I almost wanted to put semicolons at the end of normal english sentences!
What is your least favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	Knowing that there should be an easy way to do something you've done in another language but you just can't find the exact syntax.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I really enjoyed this assignment- I wouldn't recommend any changes.

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JS Scrabble

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	x
Comprehension questions	x
General
score calculates score, has appropriate params and return value	x
highestScoreFrom calculates highest scoring word, has appropriate params and return value	x
Player object
Has name and plays properties	x
Has play, totalScore, hasWon functions	x
Has highestScoringWord and highestWordScore functions	x
Overall

For your function highestScoreFrom(words), you end up using two arrays bestWords and bestWordsLengths that you keep in parallel. I tend to recommend programmers to avoid that because it leads to so much possibility of forgetting to update one or the other appropriately. It would be better to find a different data structure that can handle keeping the two pieces of data together.