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01 // PROJECT AT A GLANCE

HANGMAN IN RUBY

Ruby

The same hangman, rewritten in Ruby: comparison is the point.

An exact port of the Java hangman into another language, with the same images and the same behaviour. The approach is deliberately comparative: by keeping the problem identical, everything that differs in the code reveals a difference of language or library, not a difference of subject.

Hangman in Ruby with the Gosu game library, a virtual keyboard built from a data structure and the word read from the same configuration file.

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02 // PROJECT SIGNALS

DATE:
2020
PRIMARY LANG:
Ruby
GRADE:
—
DURATION:
2 weeks
SECONDARY:
—
STACK:
Gosu / RubyGems

03 // KEY OUTCOMES

  • The same game written twice in two languages, for a concrete comparison
  • A virtual keyboard described declaratively rather than built by hand

BEYOND THE BRIEF

  • Rewriting the same game in a second language, precisely in order to compare the two approaches

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