mod_4_blog.md

Blog #1

Nokogiri VS Feedjira

What is Nokogiri?

• Uses for Nokogiri

• Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. The main feature of Nokogiri is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.

• Pros of using Nokogiri

• The pros would be that you can parse multiple types of documents using one parser.

• Cons with using Nokogiri
• Examples of Nokogiri code

What is Feedjira?

• Uses for Feedjira
• Pros of using Feedjira
• Cons of using Feedjira
• Example of Feedjira code

Why would you want to use one over the other?

• Use cases where Feedjira is a better option than Nokogiri
• Use cases where Nokogiri is a better option than Feedjira

Conclusions

• Overall summarization of both tools

Blog #2

Building a Game in JS and the Maths Involved

Explanation of the Game

• Inspirations for making the game
• how our game is different than the original
• how to play the game

Learning Woes

• challenges with getting the cannon barrel to rotate around a center pivot point
• challenges with getting the cannon ball to have a realistic trajectory
• More in depth as to how we got the cannon ball to render smoothly
• challenges with getting the toggle bar and targets to move back and forth

How We Solved the Challenges

• Explain the math involved with getting cannon barrel to rotate correctly
• Explain math involved with getting cannon ball to fly realistically
• explain math behind getting the toggle bar and targets to move properly

End Result

• Show finalized refactored code
• Show how we tested for every function
• Show game play