Leaves--Janice

[jaitch]

JS Adagrams

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What patterns were you able to use from your Ruby knowledge to apply to JavaScript?	if and while
Did you need to use different strategies to find information online about JavaScript than you would for Ruby?	Kind of...when I was looking for JS equivalents to Ruby methods, yes
What was a challenge you were able to overcome on this assignment?	Being robbed of all the Ruby methods I've grown to love! I was particularly flummoxed by comparing word lengths when determining the winner--accessing to the word length from the array of objects with two key-value pairs was challenging!
What has been interesting and positive about learning a new programming language?	Even though I feel like I now know neither Ruby nor JavaScript, it has been fun to approach this as translation rather than learning a whole new language. I like the brain-twisting!
What is something to focus on your learnings in JavaScript in the next week?	Remembering that I can't return out of a forEach!

[beccaelenzil]

JS Adagrams

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
General
Answered comprehension questions	yes
Small commits with meaningful commit messages	yes
Code Requirements
drawLetters method
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter distribution	yes
All tests for drawLetters pass	yes
usesAvailableLetters method
All tests for usesAvailableLetters pass	yes
scoreWord method
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter scores	yes
All tests for scoreWord pass	yes
Optional
highestScoreFrom method
Appropriately handles edge cases for tie-breaking logic	yes
All tests for highestScoreFrom pass	yes
Overall	Great work overall! Your code is well written and you've done a good job practicing javascript syntax. I am particularly impressed by your use of helper functions. One style note is to organize your code such that all constants (the letter frequency and letter value objects, in this case) and helper functions are at the top (inside the module), and all functions are written in the order in which they are used (even though this isn't required). Keep up the hard work!

[beccaelenzil]

Here, you shuffle the entire array pool of letters... and then, you take the first ten. Consider refactoring this so that you randomly pick ten letters, instead of shuffling the entire array.

[beccaelenzil]

Consider using comments to outline your logic here. There's a lot going on, there may be an opportunity for a helper function.