Yeah totally! Initially just whipped this together as a MVP. Been trying to read more non-technical books so I thought about making a site that'd help me choose one to pick. Aim is to have a top weekly/monthly section as well as you said, different categories!
I personally just code for self interest and enjoy a challenge since my job is rather stale. I can't speak from experience but I'm sure having a portfolio relevant to the type of work you're aiming for would impress potential clients and enhance corresponding skills.
In total I've spent roughly a month and a half working on it but mostly only spending an hour or so every couple days on it. After understanding the architecture, the coding isn't too difficult and is immensely rewarding!
Thanks! I actually just built this tool to help me see colours better as I am colour blind but may toy around with it on weekends to see what else I can come up with :)
Oh, I was splitting the two of the top genes within the pool and giving each other half of their respective genes and inserting it at the bottom which is why the ones that look closer to the goal are at the bottom. I added a sorting feature after the creation of children to fix that!
Remembered that I heard about this back in university but never looked into it. I had some spare time at work so I decided to quickly code it and see it in action.
A very simple form of AI that I whipped together during my spare time at work that uses a mix of A* and a few heuristics. I am aware it isn't exactly true AI but it does let me see the "computer" attempt to play snake.
I had some time before work ended and thought it might be a good idea to get a better handle of trees and graphs since I haven't had to think about them much since university. If anyone has implemented another graphing algorithm that they think is fun, let me know - I'd love to take a crack at it.
What better way to learn a language better than by creating something using it - so I decided to make an app to quote the most 'intelligent' comments from our beloved site: Reddit.
That is quite interesting, I didn't really think about mobile capabilities while making this but it would be a fun thing to add. I'll look into it after my exam tomorrow!
I initially had specified that in the controls list but it was too cluttered so I decided to give a general description of "arrow" = move. Preferably, I'd want to add a little guide box on the side of the canvas but I am still learning about formatting a page in hmtl/css.
After seeing yesterday's Show HN about building a Tetris game on a game, I decided to take a crack at it and build it within a short time frame before I went back to studying for my midterm. I rarely code in JavaScript so it added to the challenge. Several features are missing but I am satisfied with what I accomplished during my coding session.