Chitter

https://chitter-challenge-jb.herokuapp.com/peeps
https://github.com/jenniferbacon01/chitter-challenge
For the 4th weekend challenge at Makers Academy I built my first rip-off website, of many to come... Agreed it's not quite up there with the rest of Twitter's competitors, but there was something satisfying about bringing all the pieces I had learnt so far together in a kitch culmination of my coding skills. Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, Rspec, Capybara, PostgreSQL.

Lemmings

https://github.com/jenniferbacon01/lemmings
For this project, we decided to rebuild one of our favourite games from the 90s. We chose to use a physics engine (Matter.js) to govern the motion of the bodies and handle collisions - it was fairly easy to understand and was super fun to play with! It turned out to be a bit of blessing and a curse as we soon realised why physics engines are notoriously unstable and difficult to test. We definitely learnt alot from the challenges we faced during this week and still managed to make level one playable! Technologies: Javascript, Node, Mocha-Chai, Matter.js.