Category Archives: Games

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ESL English Parts of Speech Tutorial

Yesterday’s ESL English Clause Primer Tutorial was an opportunity to think about other web application ideas that could benefit from that design of HTML and Javascript code. Today’s “Parts of Speech” (ESL) game came about by … start with code … Continue reading →

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ESL English Clause Primer Tutorial

An English sentence is a wonderful and flexible part of the English language. In essence, most sentences we express in English, can be broken up into clauses, which are, to quote Text Types in English by Mark Anderson and Kathy … Continue reading →

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HTML Square Horizontal Rule Tracing Propogation Tutorial

Yesterday’s HTML Square Horizontal Rule Tracing Game Tutorial continued on with the … HTML hr and div elements made up to be … lines vertices … only needing the underlying … table cell elements as graphical position markers only (made … Continue reading →

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HTML Square Horizontal Rule Tracing Game Tutorial

The first application of the (online web application) line drawing we started with yesterday’s HTML Square Horizontal Rule Tracing Primer Tutorial is today’s online (web application) game version of some of the excellent puzzles in the book “Chinese Brain Twisters” … Continue reading →

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Octopus Anatomy Primer Tutorial

What do Carpentry and Octopus Anatomy have in common? Many hands make light fittings get a bevelled edge? No, for us, finding an arrowed diagram for Octopus Anatomy that functioned like the one we used for our Carpentry web application … Continue reading →

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Who Am I Game Linked Iframe Tutorial

Today’s work adds functionality onto yesterday’s Who Am I Game Primer Tutorial, allowing for this game to involve two players. Two players using the one computer or device? We do this today by making use of the HTML (textbox) input … Continue reading →

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Five Hundred Card Game Flow Tutorial

Sometimes web applications need that “modal” quality that the Javascript popup boxes, specifically our use of the window.alert([information]) Javascript popup window for the Five Hundred Card Game. The reason is that given the Javascript client side’s lack of a true … Continue reading →

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Five Hundred Card Game Bidding Tutorial

We’re introducing another Card Game into the mix of the Draw Poker and Pontoon functionality from the Draw Poker Card Game Bidding Tutorial of a couple of days back. That card game is Five Hundred, and if you know this … Continue reading →

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