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!