Caroline Nardi - JS Scrabble - Octos

[cmn53]

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 approach used to determine things like highestScoreFrom, highestScoringWord, and highestWordScore was all directly translatable from the Ruby Scrabble project.
What was a challenge you faced in this assignment?	I went back and forth with how to handle some of the potential invalid inputs and the level of detail that should be included in the error messages, ie. is it better to group them all into one line and throw a less specific exception or have 20 lines of code to cover every potential invalid input and give the user a more specific message. I was also looking for an opportunity to pass a function as an argument to another function, but none were readily apparent (and/or would have involved changing the provided tests).
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?
No, it seemed pretty straight-forward and I liked repeating a project we had done in another language, both because we could use it as a reference for the game logic, and to see how far we have come since then.

[droberts-sea]

JS Scrabble

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	I would like to see more frequent commits.
Comprehension questions	yes
General
score calculates score, has appropriate params and return value	yes
highestScoreFrom calculates highest scoring word, has appropriate params and return value	yes
Player object
Has name and plays properties	yes
Has play, totalScore, hasWon functions	yes
Has highestScoringWord and highestWordScore functions	yes
Overall	Excellent work overall!

[droberts-sea]

I like that you're throwing full instances of Error here. Throwing raw strings is tempting, but you don't get a full stack trace.

[droberts-sea]

Good use of a helper function to clarify this logic