Learn to Code - Lesson 04 - Understanding Functions and Making a Guessing Game

In our final fundamentals lesson, we're going to learn about functions and make a simple guessing game in JavaScript.

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[Viper]

Perfect. Such a great guide for people who want to know how to use something that builds everything in our information age.

[DekuPlatformer]

Coding languages are basically how a program is made. You can use many different languages to code. Basically the language just means the text you are typing, you don't have to set your computer to a certain coding language or anything like that. It's similar to languages you speak, you learn a certain one which is what you are best at but many people learn other languages too.

[karld]

this is quite handy - i did some stuff like finding syntax errors and all that ages ago but couldnt really remember much from not doing it for a few yesrs but shit is making a lot of points that i done previously "come to light" :) nice work ^^

[FlashySenap]

I've been looking for a place to begin learning java-script and programming in general. I've had a major issue with most tutorials, mostly because they teach in a very abstract form. here I can learn to work with it in a more hands on way and see the actual code doing stuff, It's so much easier to understand. thanks! =D

Only thing I miss is a direction towards where I can continue with this... I want tutorials and lessons in similar styles like this...

[liveoutdoors]

I couldn't stop staring at that syntax error ("perfectNumer"). Cunning bit of editing when the window was behind the web browser, nicely caught ;)

[flippintuna]

Hello,
java script is basically a text like times new roman and things like that except it's a type that is recognized easily.
You just save it as a .html for this type of coding/scripting.
Hope I helped

[AnoNeko]

Oh, I see. I looked it up a bit myself and am anxious to learn more about it. Thank for explaining a bit about it.

by differnet languages you mean different coding, not actually using different languages to code, right? not like spanish, english etc... (Hope that made sense lol)

[DekuPlatformer]

Yeah, I was just making an example. The language people code in is mostly preference although it seems that most people prefer C++ (Javascript is probably the easiest to learn though)

[ricehasnolife]

I love eating the perfect amount of apples! :D

[klettrain]

yup, keep main commands in english and everything will work :)

[catland]

Thank you for making this, great intro to coding. Only problem is I don't get a submit button, just two text input fields. Do I need to update my browser or java?

[AnoNeko]

Could you explain more to me about "Java Script Language"? Being completely serious here.

[AAAXYZ]

Looks good except I think whatever you did might have caused your clock to go fast. At 6:30 it skips from 2:22:11pm to 2:23:31pm. Is this malware?

[lifewithdylan]

how did you even get that on the web page?

[klettrain]

i did it, wohoo, well i did it about 5hours :D i know. but first i did it in my home language, so that did not work, then i started to translate in to english and it still did not work. my main problem was that i did not get any answer. seems that my problem was that i had "function" with F not f. will see, now i will start to re-translate :D

[dentedfence]

Why Don't you make more, this is Helpful, im trying to make a game and its going pretty well, theres only 4 of us and theres a lot to do and I need to  get better at Coding and that... Like I ant make the main menu go to the damn game for god sakes, I have also watched some other youtube videos but some reason they did not wok or I have a new version or something Sorry for making it look like a lot bye saying that it looks like a lot and so on...plz make more vids man if(you want to){ I lear more } 

[woooowie]

Use Ansi right? < As coding
But if i code stuff it only said this on my page :
 {rtf1}
Even if i removed it

[AidanXD]

im on windows and his textmate looks far easier to read the code. I'm using notepad++ . it works and it just not as tidy and easy to read as this one? any versions like this for windows?

[klettrain]

i had same problem, but i found that i used other language and that made this, second "input-type" has to be in english "submit"

[adriansantos]

it worked perfecly but t get something that says Submit Query instead of just submit and i tried changing the name to something else but it sitll says submit querry any way to fix it?