Play by Play: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Lea Verou

By Geoffrey Grosenbach and Lea Verou
In this live coding session, W3C member and front end development expert Lea Verou implements the classic Conway's Game of Life in the browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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(503)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jul 19, 2014
Duration
2h 15m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 2m
Data Model and Game Mechanics
Lea's Travels 2m Description of Conway's Game of Life 3m Initial Strategy and Starting Point 10m Initial Console Debugging 4m Neighbor Logic 10m Death Logic 5m
HTML Game View
Implement the LifeView Object 8m Grid Styling 7m Connecting the Interface to the Model 4m Implementing the 'next' Function 6m Adding Buttons to Run the Simulation 9m Refining the 'next' and 'autoplay' Buttons 8m Simple Controller Functionality 9m
Accessibility and Styling
Using git 2m Accessibility 17m Styling 13m Styling Labels and Rethinking Interactions 8m Animation 9m
Description
Course info
Rating
(503)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jul 19, 2014
Duration
2h 15m
Description

Watch a live coding session in which Lea Verou implements the classic Conway's Game of Life in the browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Play by Play is a series where you get a rare view into the workflows and thought processes of top admins, developers, and designers. This is not a planned or rehearsed presentation, but a live, unrehearsed problem solving and troubleshooting session where you see an expert think through issues and design solutions, as they do in the real world every day.

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Geoffrey Grosenbach
About the author

Geoffrey founded PeepCode and has created numerous courses on Ruby, JavaScript and Shell.

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Lea Verou
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Lea is a web standards geek / front-end engineer / web designer / speaker currently living in Greece. She makes tools that help other developers working with web standards, speaks about them in conferences, writes about them in popular industry media, and blogs about her related research and tools.

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