Codecademy's Animate Your Name - FAQ staging area

The Plan

This is the current Plan. Plans change. Changes will be reflected here.

Create answers for the following questions. On CC, create a pinned post that will serve as a Table of Contents. All of these answers will be posted individually but not pinned. They will be linked to from the ToC post.

General Questions

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• Did we really learn anything?
• Where is all the code that is making this happen?
• I want to learn how this really works.

Behind the Scenes

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• How does alphabet.js work?
• How does bounceBubbles() know what to do?
• What does drawName() really do?

Outside Implementation

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• How can I make bouncing bubbles work away from Codecademy?
• Bouncing bubbles does not work from my hard drive [offline]
• Can I have more than one line of text? [should be here or in customization,? this is more about implementing, not changing script]

Customization

Colors

• Can I make more colors? (1034)
• How to change background of animation? (1326)
• Any more tricks? Yes, color fading! (1013)

Letters and dots size

• Can I change the font size? (2458)
• Can I change size of the dots? (1214)

Shapes

• Can I have more shapes? (0)

Canvas resize and format

• How to resize animation? (832)
• How to vertically center the animation? (2138)

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Gists

bubbles.js