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[Daniel]

I came across this game at a different forum.  I have no idea how many programmers we have here so it might not work out, but basically each person adds a single line of code to the program and then when the program is finished then we run it and get it to do something.  I guess we'll play in HTML5/JavaScript.  I'll start.

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canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // put a canvas onto the page

[Aquila]

Only works if other people know Javascript. I only know C/C++. I've also used assembly language for programming microcontrollers.

[Daniel]

I only know high level languages (although I have wanted to learn the assembly language that's used to make Game Boy games, but I never got around to it).

My move...

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canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // put a canvas onto the page
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // get the context

[The Curt Jester]

Added a line...

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canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // put a canvas onto the page
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // get the context
EXIT // Closes the program

[Daniel]

SYNTAX ERROR!!!

edit - actually, it's not a syntax error (but it doesn't exit the program either, haha).

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canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // put a canvas onto the page
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // get the context
EXIT // Closes the program
= null; // and void
function draw(){ // start defining a drawing function

[The Curt Jester]

SYNTAX ERROR!!!

edit - actually, it's not a syntax error (but it doesn't exit the program either, haha).

Hah.  I've not done much coding, but when I did, that would work to stop the script from running.

[Daniel]

SYNTAX ERROR!!!

edit - actually, it's not a syntax error (but it doesn't exit the program either, haha).

Hah.  I've not done much coding, but when I did, that would work to stop the script from running.

Well JavaScript doesn't have an exit statement (at least as far as I know), and if it did then it would need to be lowercase.  So what ended up happening is the browser thought that EXIT was the name of a new variable.  But it wasn't initialized so I just set it to null (on the following line, which somehow completed the previous line... I guess that JavaScript lets you split lines of code onto multiple lines like that...)

My turn:

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canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); // put a canvas onto the page
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // get the context
EXIT // Closes the program
= null; // and void
function draw(){ // start defining a drawing function
    canvas.width = 640; // oops, I should have done this outside the function...