01219245/javascript1/tutorial4

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Everyone should know what Hangman Game is. If you don't, it's a simple vocabulary game and you can try it here.

Task breakdown

Exercise: Let's think about what our Hangman program has do to.

Expand this box to see a few examples after you finish thinking.

• Random a word.
• Show the word with blanks.
• Read the guess alphabets and show the correct ones in the word.
• Count the number of wrong guesses.
• Show the hangman figures.
• Show a list of alphabets from which the user can choose.
• Hide used alphabets.
• Reset the game after the game ends.
• (... I can keep listing other features.)

Not all features above are extremely important to the game. For example, if you don't even draw the hangman figures, the game will be a pretty weird hangman game, but it is still the hangman game. If we can only choose 2 features to implement, we can simply throw away the hangman drawing task.

Exercise: From the list above, try to order the items according to their importance to the game.

Expand this box to see some possible ordering.

This is how I would order it. It is OK if your preference is different.

• Show the word with blanks.
• Read the guess alphabets and show the correct ones in the word.
• Count the number of wrong guesses.
• Random a word.
• Show the hangman figures.
• Show a list of alphabets from which the user can choose.
• Hide used alphabets.
• Reset the game after the game ends.