Jan Edrozo | Carets

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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?	Design patterns I've implemented in both Ruby and JS scrabble versions involve encapsulation, leveraging helper methods to promote modularity, and using enumerables. Specifically, in JS Scrabble module, the score() method uses two helper methods (splitChars and totalScore) to calculate a word's score and, its highestScoreFrom() method uses the reduce method to iterate over an array of words.
What was a challenge you were able to overcome on this assignment?	One challenge was learning how to implement "this". After working on JS Scrabble, I learned that using "this" not only invokes self, but can also serve as a way of namespacing; connecting an object to a behavior. For example, in the Player's highestWordScore() method, initially, I tried calling the highestScoringWord() method using "Scrabble.highestScoringWord()", but JS could not recognize it as a function when called inside of Scrabble.score(). The workaround was to use "this"; which was handy to note after linter pointed that out!
What is your favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	During this project, I enjoyed being able to better Google to learn a new language. It was much easier/faster to navigate different resources now that I have a larger vocabulary and can hone in on more specific terms to help me solve a problem.
What is your least favorite thing about learning a new programming language?	Navigating the nuances of syntax, style guides and understanding the why's behind best practices
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Maybe having optional tests set up?

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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

You implemented a really good function splitChars()! There's a built-in JS function that does that. In Google Chrome's Dev tools, in the console, run the line "abcd".split("");!

Good job overall!