Build the Game of Life

Name: Build the Game of Life
Rating: 3.7 (112 reviews)

Master HTML, CSS and JavaScript by building a game

(112 ratings)

1,574 students

Created by Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman

Last updated 1/2020

English

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What you'll learn

JavaScript programming
JavaScript event handling
How to interact with the web page using JavaScript
How to create the Game of Life in a web page

Requirements

Basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Programming Skills

Description

Welcome to Build the Game of Life, a project that takes you through building a generative, cellular automaton game from start to finish in a one page app using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This project is a great way for you to integrate your skills with markup, style and behavior by creating an interactive and dynamic application right in your browser. In this project we’ll make heavy use of the DOM, events, timing and simple logic to create a truly generative application.

Who this course is for:

Beginner to intermediate web developers

Featured review

James M.

85 courses

3 reviews

2 years ago

Yes this is much clearer than the last course on this same topic I took on YouTube. They were using canvas and didn't explain that I should be writing pseudocode first. Learned something new today. Still, I'm having a lot of anxiety doing this.

Elisabeth Robson

Co-founder and Principal at WickedlySmart

4.4 Instructor Rating
216 Reviews
3,051 Students
6 Courses

Elisabeth Robson is a co-founder and principal at WickedlySmart, an author, and software developer, and teaches online courses for for O'Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning. She's the co-author of four best-selling titles--Head First JavaScript Programming, Head First Design Patterns, Head First HTML & CSS, and Head First HTML5 Programming--and previously the Director of Special Projects and co-director of the Head First series at O'Reilly Media. Prior to her work at O'Reilly Media, Elisabeth was Director of Engineering at The Walt Disney Company. Elisabeth holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Yale University.

Eric Freeman

Computer Scientist

3.8 Instructor Rating
142 Reviews
1,713 Students
2 Courses

Eric is described by Head First series co-creator Kathy Sierra as "one of those rare individuals fluent in the language, practice, and culture of multiple domains from hipster hacker, corporate VP, engineer, think tank." Professionally, Eric recently ended nearly a decade as a media company executive-having held the position of CTO of Disney Online at The Walt Disney Company. Eric now devotes his time to writing and teaching software technology. His book Head First Design Patterns is considered an indispensable guide for object-oriented programmers and won the Jolt award for technical excellence.