In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart spends most of the time talking through his solution to the previous challenge, where we added start and stop buttons to our Game of Life. In his solution, he actually modifies the prototype to accommodate the ability to add these buttons. He explains his process and his decisions along the way. I’m not going to lie, this one confused me quite a bit in the middle but we both hope it’s because we’ve been away from the hard-core JavaScript for quite a while.
Once we have that under our belts, he starts explaining some of the cool, new features in JavaScript ES6 where we abandon var
and replace it with let
and const
. He explains the value of these new terms (and the problems they solve!)
Bart’s full tutorial is available as always at pbs.bartificer.net/…