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Chapter: Days 97-99: Building JSON APIs
Lecture: Implementing the game (client-side)
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You saw us write the game,
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interaction of the game loop previously.
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We've consumed a bunch of API's with Uplink already.
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So let me just drop in some code here that is going to
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be basically, the same thing but using the service,
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just for the sake of time.
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So what do we got?
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We're going to print out the top scores,
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and we're going to call top_scores and then we'll loop
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over them, and remember everything that comes back is a
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dictionary so we've got to get the values and then
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this is a nested dictionary,
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so we've got to get the name from the player that we got,
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and so on.
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So we're going to print out the top scores,
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we're going to create a new game that's going to return
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that dictionary which we're going to get the game id.
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We could do some work to make this much easier to consume,
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but just keep it focused on more the server side.
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Kind of just roll with what we got.
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Give us all the rolls, get us the player list.
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Suppose we want to be the player Charles.
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And then we're just going to say while the game is not over,
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we're just going to go through and play a round,
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pass the game id,
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the user being Charles, and the roll which we're randomly
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choosing from the various options we got from the server.
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Right up there.
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Okay, so we're just going to go run and do that, and when
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it's over we're going to get the game status,
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and print the outcome which the game status has the winner.
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Oh, okay, so let's run this.
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By the way, it doesn't ask us what we want to do.
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It just randomly chooses rolls for Charles,
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and makes him play those.
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But it could just as well, this could be an input or
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some other type of UI.
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Oh, Charles is not found.
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Yeah, I guess we got to create Charles.
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Let's go ahead and just create him this way,
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it's probably the easiest way.
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All right, try again.
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Boom, look at that.
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Top scores, Michael scored 1, Charles scored 0,
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so Charles threw rock, computer threw scissors,
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that resulted in a win for the player which is Charles.
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We got a tree and a sponge, win.
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Lightning does not beat the devil,
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water does not beat humans,
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but finally the end, humans beat scissors and that takes it.
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The game is over and Charles is the winner.
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Let's run it again.
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At the top you see now Charles and Michael have 1.
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One score each in the top score, in the leaderboard there.
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Come down here, game is over, the computer won.
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Let's try again.
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Leaderboard should now be 1, 1, 1.
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How come Charles winner, is the winner.
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So if we run it this time,
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Charles now has the global high score.
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Pretty amazing.
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It might feel like we're kind of playing the same game,
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but this is totally different, right?
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We could put this on a phone app,
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we could distribute this around the world.
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And if we were hosting that website somewhere
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like Heroku, or Digital Ocean, or Linode,
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or something like that.
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Put it out there, and this would be shared for the world.
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Pretty cool.
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Hopefully this has inspired you to see what you could build.
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I know it's not the super simplest demo,
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but it's pretty realistic, and it does cover a lot of
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interesting use cases, and it really opens another world
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for you guys to build cool applications that are
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data driven remotely.
