{"id":36912,"date":"2018-03-20T03:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=36912"},"modified":"2018-03-21T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:31:22","slug":"first-name-guessing-game-for-two-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/first-name-guessing-game-for-two-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

It may not be immediately imaginable what would be the synergies between today’s proposed “First Name Guessing Game for Two” and Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/a>‘s “Word Guessing Game for Two”. Other than that a First Name is a Word, isn’t there too much difference here to clone the “Word Guessing Game for Two” into a new “First Name Guessing Game for Two” when even dictionaries usually do not venture into the world of First Names, so much a product of our culture and history? But, believe it or not these two games are so alike that, apart from tweaks to prompt wordings and message wordings, all that is needed to succeed after the cloning is to make the middleman<\/strike>person surprise.php get called for Linux (or Mac OS X FreeBSD) dictionary file usage such that instead of accessing a dictionary file called …<\/p>\n


\n\/usr\/share\/dict\/words
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… that contains a list of singular, in our case, English, words to access, for the purposes of our new “First Name Guessing Game for Two” the dictionary file …<\/p>\n


\n\/usr\/share\/dict\/propernames
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

… cute,huh?! But a big ask for a complete list of First Names around the world! Nevertheless, it is good to have this list for our game today, and some other ideas that you can think of, am sure. Maybe, a basis in letters for part of a password idea, for example. Seeing this same dictionary file on both Mac OS X and Linux was an encouraging sign of support from the operating systems here.<\/p>\n

The event and organizational side of the web application is just as described for Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/a> below. We just call surprise.php with an extra …<\/p>\n


\n&firstname=y
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… within its URL. Also, references to the online English<\/a> dictionary become a bit inapplicable, but we substitute in, here, on these a<\/i> links, use of the excellent Behind the Name<\/a> website, thanks.<\/p>\n

So here’s a live run<\/a> and here is the HTML programming source code you could call nameguessgame.html<\/a> which got created via these cloning changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1’s First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Word Games help vocabulary for ESL<\/a> students. There is also not much doubt that collaboration can help ESL students, who also learn quicker with other students present.<\/p>\n

Today we create a web application Word Guessing Game designed for two. Not two devices, the one device for two users (hovering over it). So for …<\/p>\n