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#50885: This is a generic suggestion across most of the examples that I have been working through. Understanding that this is a book "for Kids", you ...more...
Chris Strom says: That's a good suggestion and one that I have been wondering about. I do not have a good feel for how easy it is for the very new programmer to process the concept of variables like that, so I have been sticking with concrete numbers. To be sure, if I were coding this myself, I would definitely use your approach. I'm going to keep this open and revisit in a week or so...
B1.0
26-Feb-13
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#50846: Sorry I am being pedantic! In the keydown listener function there the keydown code is logged to the console only if its not 'E' (only one e...more...
B1.0
22-Feb-13