Course in JavaScript Game Development

Improve your JS coding skills through a series of gaming projects, culminating in the development of a Chess AI. The course also provides projects for learning basic data structures and algorithms.

The course consists of lecture notes that walk you through the steps of developing each game. You will likely need a human tutor to answer questions.

Prerequisites

Novice familiarity with JavaScript.

Project 1: A refresher on loops in JavaScript

Lecture notes

Project 2: Lights Out

• The game
• Lecture notes

Project 3: Thumb Wrestling

• The game
• Lecture notes

Project 4: Linked lists

Lecture notes

Project 5: Doubly linked lists

Lecture notes

Project 6: Binary search trees

Lecture notes

Project 7: Sokoban

• The game
• Lecture notes

Project 8: Deep copy

• Lecture notes

Project 9: Tic Tac Toe AI

• The game
• Lecture notes

Project 10: Connect Four AI

• The game
• Lecture notes forthcoming

Project 11: Othello AI

• The game
• Lecture notes forthcoming

Project 12: Checkers AI

• The game
• Lecture notes forthcoming

Project 13: Chess AI

• The game
• Lecture notes forthcoming