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JS Adagrams

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
What patterns were you able to use from your Ruby knowledge to apply to JavaScript?	Primarily recognizing that I should create key value pairs to store letter information in and when/what loops to use.
Did you need to use different strategies to find information online about JavaScript than you would for Ruby?	I found it much easier to google what I syntax I wanted compared to when I was learning the same in Ruby, but that was almost entirely because I've learned what function/method I'm looking for and what it's probably called. I did have to adjust some phrasing to avoid getting html/css related hits.
What was a challenge you were able to overcome on this assignment?	I got stuck trying to do a switch statement on Wave 3 and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't return the point value. When I read the documentation more carefully I was able to see that I wasn't using it correctly and it actually wasn't something I truly needed to use.
What has been interesting and positive about learning a new programming language?	Now that I have a basic understanding of how things work with the more generic parts of programming languages, I enjoyed having the time/ability to more easily find different functions and syntax and chose the one I liked the most instead of trying to force my code into the only one I understood.
What is something to focus on your learnings in JavaScript in the next week?	I can definitely get better at using (or just actually use) arrow functions and dry up my code.

[CheezItMan]

JS Adagrams

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
General
Answered comprehension questions	Check, glad you learned quite a bit
Small commits with meaningful commit messages	Check, good granular commits and meaningful commit messages
Code Requirements
drawLetters method	Check
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter distribution	Check
All tests for drawLetters pass	Check
usesAvailableLetters method	Check
All tests for usesAvailableLetters pass	Check
scoreWord method	Check
Uses appropriate data structure to store the letter scores	Check
All tests for scoreWord pass	Check
Overall	Nice work, you hit the learning goals here. Well done.

[CheezItMan]

Nice helper! With good documentation!

[CheezItMan]

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[CheezItMan]

One problem here is that letters in hand will be mutated here. That could lead to side-effects if someone 's anticipating that the original array isn't modified.