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https://github.com/jonhoo/tetris-tutorial

From rags to riches; building Tetris with no programming experience.
https://github.com/jonhoo/tetris-tutorial

game-development html javascript learn-to-code tetris tutorial

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From rags to riches; building Tetris with no programming experience.

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README 

        
Hello.



## The story



My step-brother was playing Tetris today, but was getting annoyed about all the

ads and the "recharge time" in the game, and vented his frustration to me.

After pointing out that there are probably thousands of completely

frustration-free (well, apart from the gameplay) Tetris clones out there, I

jokingly told him to go write his own Tetris game instead. His immediate

reaction was "I could never do that". After some interrogration, he revealed

that he actually thought that doing so could be quite fun, if only there was a

good way for him to learn how to do so without studying Computer Science for

years. This is my attempt to make that possible.



## The game



If all you want to do is play Tetris, there is a working implementation in the

root of this repository which you can launch by clicking this link. It even implements the [Super Rotation

System](http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/SRS) correctly, if you care about that.

It's quite rudimentary (no levels, no sound, no "next piece", etc.), but fully

playable, and quite small.



## The tutorial



The meat of this repository is in [doc/](doc/), which holds all the tutorial

text. You start with the [intro](doc/intro.md), and follow the links from

there. I attempt to cover everything from the very basics (what is a variable?)

to how to build a complete, working Tetris game, so it is (/will be) quite

long, but hopefully it will be a good primer for those trying to get into

programming, but who find "introduction to JavaScript" style tutorials

completely uninteresting.



## Progress



The tutorial is far from finished, but at least the code is there. I'll be

writing on this when I have time, and I have many things to do, so I make no

guarantees about when new content will be added, nor when (if ever) the entire

tutorial will be completed. It's fun to write though, and if people seem to be

getting something out of it, I'm more inclined to continue.



## Feedback



Yes please! Open an issue using the GitHub [issue

tracker](https://github.com/jonhoo/tetris-tutorial/issues), send a [pull

request](https://github.com/jonhoo/tetris-tutorial/pulls) with improvement

suggestions, or just send me an [email](mailto:[email protected]).

I'm not hard to get a hold of.