I decided to write a random generator that would generate a random character and log it to the console. Attributes included were alignment, race, and class, along with a flavor text, e.g. “Yay! You’re a Neutral Human Wizard!”
The biggest challenge I had was getting remote repositories to work properly. I had to turn to a more experienced programmer for help, but he helped me through troubleshooting so that I could remotely push from my laptop onto GitHub.
The program is very simple. Four arrays with the flavor text, alignment, race, and class. A random number generator that takes the array as an argument and returns a random number, and a function that generates the random selections with the number generator and then logs the text to the console as a unified message.
I realized as I was writing this that I could make the program better by having the random number generator take the array as an argument and then return the selection, rather than just a random number. Maybe I’ll make that modification later. For now, it works.
Hi @kapuck, your code is very efficient! I didn’t think to create a random number generator function that can be used with multiple arrays as you did. For my project, I duplicated the code that generates a random number multiple times (you can see it here) so your approach is much better!
I also struggled a little bit with pushing a local repository to GitHub so I can relate to that.
I have been trying to use the command line/terminal for as many things as I can (opening a tab in my browser, looking at file contents etc.) so that I can become really comfortable with it. Perhaps that could be helpful for you to?
I liked your approach mate I was trying to think of how to pass the array as an argument in mine but ended up going a slightly different way. Your code helped me figure out how I could have acheived the method I initially thought of though so thanks for sharing!
Hi @jasbneal I also try to use the command line a lot, both in VS code and just generally. I’ve set up a couple more repositories since then, and I think the problem was that I didn’t know the proper commands to set up the remote repository.
Github only shows you the commands if you don’t opt to make a readme.md file. So I just haven’t done that as part of the repository setup and it works. I will figure out how to just start the repositories on the computer directly at some point, but I know I can at least get them started and working one way!
Thanks for the invite to the NYC study sessions. I will see if I can make one. There aren’t any groups in St. Louis, which is the closest big city to me, though I haven’t checked for a few weeks.
