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This week, we reviewed objects, arrays and functions in class, and the assignment was to come up with something that would basically bring all of those things together.

I decided I also wanted to incorporate some sort of picture, so I decided to do a sketch of a girl blowing bubbles. Sounds simple, but the simple things are often the most complex, I have found.

I found a cool silhouette on the internet and vectorized it on illustrator. Once that was done I started working on my code so that whenever you press the mouse it’s as if the girl is blowing bubbles (I got a cool pcomp/icm combo idea for this for later on too). I focused on starting small and simple: making one bubble and making it do what I wanted it to do.

After struggling a bit with arrays, I booked some office ours (hi Dan!) and was able to figure it out. After that it was a matter of tweaking and getting the code to look the way I wanted to. Lastly, on Tuesday morning we met again to go over the P5 play library–just because–and I managed to get help on the final little bits of the code… I’m looking at you splice().

I liked this week. I was able to take the time to make the code work the way I wanted to, and to really get a handle on functions and arrays. I’m sure I’ve got a long way ahead of me in the world of code, but I feel much better with arrays now, which I know is imperative I get a handle on.

Onwards and upwards!