Ampers: Katie

[kcforsman]

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?	I feel like conditional statements (although different syntax) are pretty much the same in javascript as in ruby. I also feel like I ended up coding a very similar solution to my partner and mine solution to the Ruby Scrabble we did earlier this cohort. Setting variables to check for certain expectations and find correct returns then iterating through an array with a forEach loop in JavaScript feels very similar to using an each loop in Ruby.
What was a challenge you faced in this assignment?	Not forgetting the syntactic nuances of Javascript that don't quite mesh with habits formed by Ruby. Using this and not self when I needed to call on a the current instance
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	I would have possibly liked to have seen more tests to work with for writing them instead of having so many already done (personally). In the end the test structure seems very similar to Ruby so having the opportunity to practice the syntax differences, especially with how quickly we need to run through JavaScript would be my preference.

[tildeee]

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

Looks good!

I'm thrilled you practiced arrow function syntax a bunch! It looks great!

If I had time to refactor, I'd want to figure out a way to move away from the giant if/else if block in score().

Otherwise good work overall

[tildeee]

I see here you have mapped arrayOfWords into an equally-sized array of scores into scores... This means that you need to reliably work in parallel between two arrays (which is how you use index).

I haven't explored this deeply myself, but I would want to explore having an array of objects that contain a word and a score...

Just a thought for maybe a future refactoring!