https://github.com/midnite81/longest-word-challenge

Find out what the longest seven letter word is on a 7 segment display
https://github.com/midnite81/longest-word-challenge

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Find out what the longest seven letter word is on a 7 segment display

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/midnite81/longest-word-challenge
• Owner: midnite81
• Created: 2019-10-05T17:58:23.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-06T22:59:26.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-05-07T00:07:56.688Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.38 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: readme.md

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# Longest Seven-segment display word

Taking on the challenge from [Tom Scott](https://twitter.com/tomscott), this code library sets out to determine what 

the longest word you can write with a seven segment display. 

Take a look at his [Youtube Challenge Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp4BMR88260). He disallows the following 

characters: gkmqvwxz. We too will exclude those characters. 

To view my tutorial on how I created this codebase please [watch it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIjTRgdvIew) on Youtube.

# Useful links

- Public domain list of English words: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

- NodeJs: https://nodejs.org/

- Typescript: http://www.typescriptlang.org/

- Seven Segment Font: https://www.dafont.com/seven-segment.font

# Node

Since Tom used NodeJs, we will do so too. However, because I like typescript because it keeps a flakey programming 

language a bit stricter we'll use it to prevent errors. Since this is a just a 'for fun' coding challenge, I'm not

going to be doing any tests in this project. 

# Taking it to the next level. 

While it's good to get the longest acceptable word, I like to know what words were possible. As such we will be creating

an array with all the acceptable words. And then we will create a server and output the word to a web page. 

# Install

First clone the package

```

git clone [email protected]:midnite81/longest-word-challenge.git

```

Then run

```

yarn

yarn run build:live

```

alternatively if you don't want to rely on nodemon then you can compile the script first and run with node directly.

```

yarn

yarn run go

```