Rock Paper Scissors Project
Overview:
In this unit, coders will create a Rock, Paper, Scissors game. The Rock, Paper, Scissors game will take user choice, generate a computer choice, and display the winner to the screen. To create this project, coders will use jQuery to take user input and display data, the Math Library to generate a random choice, and conditionals to determine the winner.
Day 1
Planning
- Complete the project planning document.
Set-Up
- Go to the repository at https://github.com/ScriptEdcurriculum/rockpaperscissors
- Fork this repository to your github account and clone to a new workspace
- Add, commit, and push your changes
- Make your site live on gh-pages
HTML
- Add any more HTML elements you will need to the page
JavaScript
- Add a click handler that displays the value of the input within the div with the id
#userChoice
Wrap
- Push your changes!
- Save and submit your website using the link on the Daily Session Document.
Day 2
Javascript
- Outside of your click handler, declare 3 variables (userChoice, computerChoice and winner) and assign them values of empty strings
- Outside of your click handler, declare a randomNumber variable and set it equal to 0
- In your click handler, generate a random number and assign it to the randomNumber variable
- In your click handler, store the input value in the userChoice variable
- In your click handler, display userChoice to the screen
Wrap
- Push your changes!
Day 3
JavaScript
- Write a conditional statement which, given the number range of randomNumber, assigns ‘rock’, ‘paper’ or ‘scissors’ to the computerChoice variable
- Display the computerChoice to the screen
- Write a conditional statement that compares the userChoice to the computerChoice to determine the winner of the game
- Display the winner to the screen in the result div
- Clear the input value once a result is displayed
Wrap
- Push your changes!
Projects Extensions:
- Style the page to fit your personality
- Validates input so that it will return “Not valid input” if the user types in a wrong choice.
- Accepts any form of a word regardless of capitalization (i.e. “Rock” “rock” roCk”)
- Keeps track of total wins and losses, until the page refreshes.
- Create a game with more variety in throwing options. Example: Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock