voidcase / pong-js

An introduction to JavaScript using Canvas

Introduction to JavaScript using Canvas

This is an introduction to JavaScript aimed at first year (and later) CS students. It will be the boilerplate for the 2nd lecture I hold for Code@LTH which will be held on the 10th september 2015.

There will also be a simpler jsfiddle, because everyone might not be familiar with Git and it's magic and jsfiddle is simply easier (even though they could just get a zip archive).

Try making a game, some cool geometry or whatever brilliant idea your imagination comes up with!

Here are a few learning resources:

• HTML5 Canvas Tutorials
• A reference of all methods available on the context/'canvas' variable
• Phaser, a game development framework for canvas

And here is a list of cool things you can try to make:

• Conway's Game of Life
• Pythagoras Tree

And here are a few things already made:

• Badass animation
• A Game of Life implementation using canvas by me

Licensed under the MIT License (tl;dr You can do anything with it, but must give credit if it's a derivative work)