{"id":21151,"date":"2016-05-02T03:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=21151"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T06:22:11","slug":"think-think-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/think-think-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Think Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Think Think Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Further to our Javascript Genericization and Overloading discussion last taken up with Javascript Function Overload Genericization Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, we add another game to the “DotDotDot” type of games, today.<\/p>\n

Basically the game is really simple …<\/p>\n

\nThink ?, Think ?<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… just about sums it up. Because we didn’t consult other specific non-search-engine websites compiling our “data” list for this, it could be quite subjective, and end up being annoying to your home country or town, but please know the game is ideally designed for you to come up with some of your own. You could rewrite the array up the top of the HTML programming source code you could call thinkthink_chalkboard.html<\/a> or mix in some of your own by using the “DotDotDot” link in the web application … Think Oyster, Think Pearl.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we just hope playing the game<\/a> is either amusing, food for thought, or maybe even educational, for you and yours. And by the way, the “.” link opens Javascript “window.open”<\/a> popup windows to do Google Searches for the “?” bits, one of which you are asked to fill in to score points in the game.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Javascript Function Overload Genericization Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Javascript Function Overload Genericization Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

A while back now, when we presented Javascript Function Overload Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown way below, we considered an ultimate<\/font> “dream” scenario …<\/p>\n

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You may wonder, at this point, why this blog posting took so long? Well, the original “dream” with this work … which, by the way, cannot work with functions like Math.pow(x,y)<\/i>, because of the Javascript language interpretation of the “.”, unfortunately<\/font> … was to take the (old) ology_chalkboard.html<\/a> of Suffix Ology Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, from some days back, and have it be virtually untouched apart from the inclusion of the external Javascript call …<\/p>\n


\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='dotdotdot.js' defer><\/script>
\n<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… related to our many “DotDotDot” ESL web applications at this blog. Sorry to throw all this “inhouse” stuff at you, but these are genericization and overloading considerations in Javascript and jQuery of pretty general interest, we feel, so we want to amend the original dream method of just including<\/b> …<\/p>\n


\n<head>
\n<\/b>
\n
\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='dotdotdot.js' defer><\/script>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

… near the top of the <head><\/head> section to now be<\/b> just a ultimate<\/font><\/strike> “dream” …<\/p>\n


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\n<link href='\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jqueryui\/1.8.16\/themes\/base\/jquery-ui.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text\/css'>
\n<style> .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar-close { display: none; } <\/style>
\n<script src=\"http:\/\/code.jquery.com\/jquery-1.9.1.js\"><\/script>
\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Javascript\/jQuery\/Dialog\/Modal\/jquery-ui-1.11.1.custom\/jquery-ui.js\"><\/script>
\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='dotdotdot.js'><\/script>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/b>
\n<\/head>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

… placed at the bottom of the <head><\/head> section (ie. just above <\/head>) … because, now, dotdotdot.js needs to be aware of your “local” Javascript and tailor its “thinking” to that “local” Javascript thinking. And so all of this begs the question … Does code eat Weet Bix in the morning? … And if so, will it be putting adverse pressure on you to complete that web application you were going to do making breakfast, coffee and toast in the morning just on getting up, even before you need to want “breakfast, coffee and toast”? … But we digress.<\/p>\n

So what stops our “dream” being ultimate<\/font>? Well, we couldn’t find a way to dynamically load jQuery into an external Javascript, for our scenario, at least, though we tried lots of good ideas from websites out there including this very useful one<\/a> … thanks. So we loaded the jQuery from the parent HTML file instead.<\/p>\n

We’ve used 3 “guinea pig” DotDotDot web applications to use to get the important “middleman<\/strike>person<\/a>” dotdotdot.js right, with no changes needed, again, to our prompt.js from all those days ago … so …<\/p>\n

Here’s the main code parts of this project, again …<\/p>\n