Memory Game is a Light & Sound Memory game to apply for CodePath's SITE Program.

Submitted by: Richard Ngo

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

The following required functionality is complete:

• Game interface has a heading (h1 tag), a line of body text (p tag), and four buttons that match the demo app
• "Start" button toggles between "Start" and "Stop" when clicked.
• Game buttons each light up and play a sound when clicked.
• Computer plays back sequence of clues including sound and visual cue for each button
• Play progresses to the next turn (the user gets the next step in the pattern) after a correct guess.
• User wins the game after guessing a complete pattern
• User loses the game after an incorrect guess

The following optional features are implemented:

• Any HTML page elements (including game buttons) has been styled differently than in the tutorial
• Buttons use a pitch (frequency) other than the ones in the tutorial
• More than 4 functional game buttons
• Playback speeds up on each turn
• Computer picks a different pattern each time the game is played
• Player only loses after 3 mistakes (instead of on the first mistake)
• Game button appearance change goes beyond color (e.g. add an image)
• Game button sound is more complex than a single tone (e.g. an audio file, a chord, a sequence of multiple tones)
• User has a limited amount of time to enter their guess on each turn

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app!

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

My GIFs:

1. If you used any outside resources to help complete your submission (websites, books, people, etc) list them here.

   For steps 1-10 I have only used the doc provided

   for the other challenges I googled resources that I needed such as how to make the onmouse up have multiple function calls.

   Helpful resources were w3schools and stackoverflow.

2. What was a challenge you encountered in creating this submission (be specific)? How did you overcome it? (recommended 200 - 400 words)

   A problem that I had encountered while working, was the lit function wasn't working when providing the clues. To debug the issue, I placed alert("working") messages throughout my program to see what was going on. After confirming the alert messages were working correctly, I was confused why the lit function wasn't working. After re-reading the document of the Lit section, I confirmed that the Javascript was the same. After fiddling around and re-reading my code I could not see any issues with it. Then I decided to look at the CSS and wondered if there was a problem with declaring #button#:active, #button#.lit in the same line. So when I decided to separate the declarations I realized that I did not change the number #button1.lit. After finding out the simple typo, disappointed in my negligence, the issue was resolved. This reminds me to always be careful when you copy-paste similar functions.

   Another issue I had when doing my project is that on the first launch of the page the audio player was not working. When I inspected the console I it gives me the message "The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed." After a quick google search

3. What questions about web development do you have after completing your submission? (recommended 100 - 300 words)

   After finishing my submission a question that I have about web development is, how do you make your website look more visually appealing or more advanced. After working with HTML and CSS on a superficial level, I know that there's a way to style a website to a certain extent. However, when compared to well-known, or other websites they pale in comparison. So although I used HTML and CSS to some extent, I am still curious about how to make clean websites that don't look inexperienced. I would like to know if web development requires you to be experienced in design. Or if there is a certain skill that I have not yet learned. Either way, I am hoping to learn skills to advance my levels of web development.

4. If you had a few more hours to work on this project, what would you spend them doing (for example: refactoring certain functions, adding additional features, etc). Be specific. (recommended 100 - 300 words)

   If I had more time to work on this project, I would either do more of the challenges or make the website look better. One idea that comes to mind is to make the clue sequence into a popular song. To do this I would need to find the actual pitches to play the song. Furthermore, I would need to make the frequency map accommodate all the pitches needed. I would also have to change the clue frequency to match the song, to make the song sound smooth. To make the website look better, one thing I would have to do is to make a new design. A design laying out how I want the website to look, as well as different color schemes and fonts.

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