Jibo Programming Challenge Implementations

This repo contains interpretations of the Jibo 2017 Programming Challenge, each highlighting particular concepts. Because this is intended as a conversation starter, none of these examples are intended either as production-ready code or as tutorials to learn from. All examples share the following characteristics:

• Minimal error checking, if present at all
• User input is not sanitized
• Source code is not properly commented
• No sophisticated module loading or dependency management
• No abstractions (i.e. an agnostic scene-graph)
• No proper test coverage
• Functional UX only and no aesthetics or use of widget libraries

Futhermore, the algorithm used in "solving" the checkerboard is the same and is a single-pass algorithm.

jiboex1

Status: Complete

This is a minimal self contained Electron app. To run on OSX:

1. Open up a command line inside jiboex1 folder
2. npm install
3. ./node_modules/.bin/electron .

Notes:

• The code is written to encourage the discussion of OOP concepts in JavaScript such as Singletons and Composition vs. Inheritance.

jiboex2

Status: In Progress

This is a minimal self contained Electron app written in TypeScript. To run on OSX:

1. Open up a command line inside jiboex2 folder
2. npm install
3. ./node_modules/.bin/tsc
4. ./node_modules/.bin/electron .

Notes:

• This example is actually an attempt to refactor vanilla JavaScript into TypeScript to encourage a discussion of writing TypeScript as well as pros and cons of using TypeScript.
• It is currently incomplete as I've discovered TypeScript appears to be more opinionated that I originally thought.

jiboex3

Status: Complete

This is an Electron app communicating with a server over a REST API. To run on OSX:

1. Confirm you have nothing running on port 8080 on your machine.
2. Open up a command line inside jiboex3 folder
3. npm install
4. Start the web server in the background node server.js &
5. Confirm server is running by opening up localhost:8080 in a web browser
6. ./node_modules/.bin/electron .

Notes:

• This example moves the code to construct the board onto a server instead of inside the Electron app. The board is serialized as JSON and sent to the Electron app to be rendered in Pixi

jiboex4

Status: Not Started

This was intended to be an example of either Electron or the server in example 3 calling out to C++.