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A client for the Yahoo! bingo contest. #complete

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Elf M. Sternberg 0de8d83595 Changed initial state to 'playing', so that we don't assume a broken connection is automatically a lost game.		2013-12-04 00:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore	Bingo client.	2013-12-03 17:19:13 -08:00
LICENSE	Updated with Github info and Coffeescript dependency.	2013-12-03 23:54:14 -08:00
README.md	Changed initial state to 'playing', so that we don't assume a broken connection is automatically a lost game.	2013-12-04 00:44:11 -08:00
bingo.coffee	Changed initial state to 'playing', so that we don't assume a broken connection is automatically a lost game.	2013-12-04 00:44:11 -08:00
package.json	Removing underscore as a dependency. No longer hacking objects, just indexes.	2013-12-04 00:40:10 -08:00
package.yml	Removing underscore as a dependency. No longer hacking objects, just indexes.	2013-12-04 00:40:10 -08:00

README.md

Yahoo's running this contest. Read about it here: http://yahoobingo.herokuapp.com/

This took me about 40 minutes, total. I was thinking about re-writing this in Bacon, but my Bacon is pretty raw. At best, I could propertize the cards to create a new card (i.e. a new state) every time a ball came in, but that seemed a little overwrought.

It was nice to have an opportunity to hack Coffee and Node again.

I don't know that I trust Yahoo's server. At least once I got back a "you lost" signal from the server. Since this client includes full playback of every game, I could see that I had clearly won. Unfortunately, my initial code assumed "lost" as the default state, so I couldn't see if maybe the 'won' signal was lost before receiving the disconnect. I've changed that to 'playing,' so we can see that condition now.