Jumbly: A Jumble Game for iOS

I’ve been working on building my mobile development portfolio. While reviewing my repositories on GitHub, I came across a word game I wrote in ColdFusion for a presentation about Regular Expressions. I figured it might make a decent game, so I chose to implement it as my next iOS application. Jumbly is a word jumble-type […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 5

I used jQuery for the UI. I am a recent convert to jQuery, having mostly used Prototype + Scriptaculous. The word list is embedded into the page script as a javascript array. On document ready, html is generated, which writes the first and last word to the page, and creates blank input boxes for the […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 3

The first thing I did was made sure that the word list would be cached on application start. This was as simple as creating an Application.cfc cfcomponent and implementing the onApplicationStart function. This function reads the dictionary in (described in the last entry) and caches the word list in a ColdFusion array. There are other […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 2

In my last entry, I described the concept behind the Word Jumble game. In this entry, I will describe initial steps in creating the game. Firstly, I needed some dictionary of words. The Unix flavors have built-in dictionaries, and I develop on OSX, so I Googled the location of its dictionary: I knew I wanted […]

Word Jumble Game: Part 1

For a recent Regular Expressions Tech Talk at Wharton, I wrote a Word Jumble game. I will be describing the game and some of the key concepts used in making the game. Here’s the github repo. The premise of the game is to transform one word into another by replacing a single letter in the […]

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Jumbly: A Jumble Game for iOS

Word Jumble Game: Part 5

Word Jumble Game: Part 3

Word Jumble Game: Part 2

Word Jumble Game: Part 1