Job Search Grid Game Tutorial
We are always on the lookout for a good quiz or game. But what if that idea is “sort of” … both? Well, we just had to give the dog a bone! But we digress.
This is where we have to thank Science Puzzles for Young Einsteins by Helene Hovanec ISBN 0-8069-3542-1 profusely. This book is full of wonderful brain games that combine puzzle feels with game feel and quiz feel. We normally like to shape a game based on another we stumble across, and add our own content, but, alas, the content here for today’s game is so good, it makes my brain hurt thinking of another set to make it work. And that is where we “value add”. Not with the “default content” of the game, but to value add to the experience we CMS it. So what does “CMS it” mean? Well, “CMS” stands for “Content Management System”, and we use the principles of CMS to encapsulate all the variable aspects we can think of about this game … within reason and present that in an HTML form …
- method=GET
- action=./job_search_grid_game.html
… our usual “suspects” for such goings on. So should the information not be too long, this should allow the user to set their own content for the game … all you young and old Einsteins out there.
However, if you find today’s game interesting and/or stimulating, rest assured Helene Hovanec has filled a book full of puzzles and quizzes and challenges like this, and so we would recommend you get out there and buy Science Puzzles for Young Einsteins by Helene Hovanec ISBN 0-8069-3542-1.
Within the HTML and Javascript job_search_grid_game.html code you will find lots of calls to Javascript’s eval method to get a CMS job done, but not involve a serverside language … does not compute … whatttevvvvvvvver.
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