codex-lv2-may-2025

Lesson 6: Mad Libs Game - Interactive

📚 Previous Lesson

Coming from Lesson 5: Water Conservation App - Interactive? Excellent! Now you’ll make your Mad Libs Game interactive by adding JavaScript functionality.

🎯 Learning Objectives

Update your Week 4 Mad Libs Game HTML wireframe to be interactive
Add JavaScript form handling and string manipulation
Practice DOM manipulation with and without helper functions

🚀 Project Overview

Update your existing Week 4 Mad Libs Game to make it interactive. You’ll add JavaScript functionality to the HTML wireframe you already created.

📝 Interactive Features to Add

Form Functionality

Input Handling: Collect user text input from form fields
Form Submission: Handle form submission events
Input Validation: Ensure users provide required information

Story Generation

String Manipulation: Combine user input with story templates
Dynamic Content: Generate unique stories based on user input
Output Display: Show the generated story to users

User Experience

Real-time Feedback: Provide immediate responses to user actions
Error Handling: Guide users when input is missing or invalid
Story Variety: Create multiple story templates for variety

💡 Implementation Tips

Start with Bootstrap: Use your existing Week 4 knowledge
Focus on Forms: Handle input collection and form submission
Test Story Generation: Ensure stories are created correctly
Refer to Code.org: Use the lessons for JavaScript implementation details

🔗 Additional Resources

Basic JavaScript Snippets - String manipulation and input handling examples
Event-Driven Programming in App Lab - Complete module with lessons and videos
JavaScript Reference - Quick JS syntax and concepts reference
Helper Functions helpers.js - Pre-built functions for common tasks. Download this and use it in your project.
Bootstrap Components Review - W3Schools Bootstrap 5 Tutorial

📚 Next Steps

Congratulations on completing Week 5! You’ve successfully made both your Water Conservation App and Mad Libs Game interactive.

Review your work:

Test all functionality in both projects
Ensure responsive design works properly
Prepare for next week’s challenges!

🎉 Week 5 Complete!

You’ve successfully learned: ✅ Event-driven programming concepts
✅ App Lab interface and tools
✅ Button and event handling
✅ Building interactive applications
✅ Input handling and string manipulation
✅ VSCode project development

Ready for the next challenge! 🚀