Virtual Pet Project

A JavaScript project part of the Software Engineering FastTrack course at Manchester Codes

General info:

The purpose of this project is to build upon the following skills recently learned as part of the Manchester Codes bootcamp course:

• Using Node and Node Package Manager (npm)
• Understanding the importance of README documents
• Using git and Github
• The importance of a .gitignore file
• Employing Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology
• Feature testing using the Node REPL
• Writing and executing unit tests using Jest
• Debugging using a stack trace
• Understanding Node modules and exporting using require
• JavaScript objects, prototypes, constructor functions, the this keyword
• Refactoring
• Understanding magic numbers

Technologies:

• JavaScript
• Node and Node Package Manager
• Jest
• Git & GitHub

Features upon completion:

• Pets can be given names
• Pets can grow older
• The hunger and fitness levels of pets can be tracked
• Pets get hungry and need to be fed
• Pets can be walked to increase their fitness
• Pets get less fit as they get older
• Pets gets hungrier as they get older
• If the pet gets too hungry or unfit, it will die!
• At 30 days over, the pet will go to virtual pet heaven!