{"id":49,"date":"2017-11-17T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kdcinfo.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/a-little-tic-tac-toe\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:03:00","slug":"a-little-tic-tac-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kdcinfo.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/a-little-tic-tac-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"A little&#8230; Tic Tac Toe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m near complete with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecodecamp.org\/\">Free Code Camp<\/a>&nbsp;Front-End Development Certification course. 291 coding challenges and I&#8217;m on my last&#8230; Haven&#8217;t read through the specs yet, but based on my last four projects, I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;ll run me another 3-4 days.<\/p>\n<p>My last project was a <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/KeithDC\/full\/MOoLNP\/\">Tic Tac Toe game<\/a>, in which you can play person-to-person, or you can play against the computer.<\/p>\n<p>If playing against the computer;<br \/>\n<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>&#8211; The computer will try to win, where possible; and try to block where it can.<br \/>\n<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>&#8211; Winning tiles highlight.<br \/>\n<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>&#8211;&nbsp;You can switch sides (between X&#8217;s and O&#8217;s).<br \/>\n<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>&#8211; Keeps score (scores swap when sides are swapped).<br \/>\n<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>&#8211; Has a random wait time for while computer is &#8216;thinking&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Play Tic Tac Toe<\/b> on CodePen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/KeithDC\/full\/MOoLNP\/\">https:\/\/codepen.io\/KeithDC\/full\/MOoLNP\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI dare say it wasn&#8217;t as much fun as creating <a href=\"https:\/\/kdcinfo.com\/guessright\/\">Guess Right (and be happy)<\/a>, but games are fun to create in any case.<\/p>\n<p>-Keith D Commiskey<\/p>\n<div>&#8212;<br \/>\nKeith D Commiskey<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/keithdc.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m near complete with the Free Code Camp&nbsp;Front-End Development Certification course. 291 coding challenges and I&#8217;m on my last&#8230; Haven&#8217;t read through the specs yet,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,87,69,70,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding-fun","category-coding-games","category-keith-d-commiskey","category-lifetime-web-developer","category-web-app-game"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A little... 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