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English Phrase Guessing Game Primer Tutorial
Following on from yesterday’s First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial exploring more regarding Linux and Mac OS X dictionary file arrangements we want to tell you about another such resource available to you in the form of the file …
/usr/share/dict/web2a
… where you can find a collection of, in our case, English, phrases (and word pairings). Again, this could be a source for some password creation thoughts, or we use this file to create today’s “English Phrase Guessing Game” by asking the user to fill in the first word or phrase part to score a point.
This was a pretty easy English word game to construct, but it featured some interesting techniques we like around here …
- an HTML iframe hosting of the middle
manperson surprise.php resource we call on to make use of “/usr/share/dict/web2a” file via the URL snippet “&phrase=y” - a Client Pre-Emptive Iframe feel as to how that middle
manperson surprise.php communicates with its supervisory phrase
html today, using that HTML iframe’s onload event to check for content, in today’s case, we hope, an English phrase (or word pairing) of length 3 to 24 … and how did we work out the range …
awk '(NR==1||length<shortest){shortest=length} END {print shortest}' /usr/share/dict/web2a # 3 is shortest thanks to advice of this useful link, thanks
awk ' { if ( length > L ) { L=length} }END{ print L}' /usr/share/dict/web2a # 24 is longest thanks to advice of this useful link, thanks - the game “standards” for randomosity as per …
var lis=eval(Math.floor(Math.random() * 21) + 3); - the usual “Score: 0/0” (implied score/goes) scoring arrangements
- the usual Javascript setTimeout timer methodology control of the game’s flow
- the often used offering to find out more on a wrong answer via a window.open English dictionary popup mechanism, prompted for via a Javascript prompt window
- the recent obsession, the HTML div element set to contenteditable=true mode allows for slightly simpler looking user interaction flagged via the onblur event
- the “I give up” mechanism (that can be really annoying NOT to have, in some games) handled via means of the onclick event, today, via a click on the non-div elements (though we did try it, unsuccessfully with the HTML div element, but it being contenteditable=true, really needs a click (into it) left aside to allow for the HTML div element to get the focus)
Your typical game ideas, in large part.
Here’s a live
run and here is the HTML programming source code you could call phrasehtml which, again, uses some PHP we’ve talked about with a lot of our word games at this blog, the very shy surprise.php … aptly named, don’t you think?!
Previous relevant First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial is shown below.
First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial
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‘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 middlemanperson surprise.php get called for Linux (or Mac OS X FreeBSD) dictionary file usage such that instead of accessing a dictionary file called …
/usr/share/dict/words
… 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 …
/usr/share/dict/propernames
… 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.
The event and organizational side of the web application is just as described for Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial below. We just call surprise.php with an extra …
&firstname=y
… within its URL. Also, references to the online English dictionary become a bit inapplicable, but we substitute in, here, on these a links, use of the excellent Behind the Name website, thanks.
So here’s a liverun and here is the HTML programming source code you could call nameguessgamehtml which gotcreated via these cloning changes.
You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1’s First Name Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial.
Previous relevant Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Word Guessing Game for Two Primer Tutorial
Word Games help vocabulary for ESL students. There is also not much doubt that collaboration can help ESL students, who also learn quicker with other students present.
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 …
- non-mobile users can play the game with one user using the mouse and the other using the keyboard
- mobile users can play with one user using touch on the blue areas of the web application and the other using touch on other places
The events we code for are …
- onclick … will be recognised on non-mobile platforms
- ontouchstart … will be recognised on mobile platforms (where it will supercede any onlick event)
- onkeyup … will be recognised on non-mobile platforms
… so you can see that the colour coding of the webpage becomes important for the mobile platform usage.
Today’s game tests English vocabulary skills. Why just English? Well, it uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server, which happens to be based on English.
Programmers often use Linux dictionary files as a means to get a word list, and that list could be in any language, and for ours it is English.
Here’s a liverun and here is the HTML programming source code you could call wordguessgamehtml which, again, uses some PHP we’ve talked about with a lot of our word games at this blog, on a “Client Pre-Emptive Iframe” scenario in a couple of HTML iframe elements we include into today’s game. We thank this free online English dictionary that gets called on if the user chooses to.
We hope you try it, and like it. By the way, you can also play the game as a single user.
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