Challenging the calculator

Hello all,

In the last week, I was working on the calculator challenge part of the activity.

As you might have seen the developments, with the latest activity the user will be able to get to know a trick, learn it and keep practising it.

So what's next?

As they learn and improve, they shall become capable of challenging a calculator and compete with it.

On posing a question, the user and the calculator will compete to answer. In a calculator, the time taken to enter the question on screen is accounted while a user can do math by his/her mind.

Within a given time, the user has to answer the question or our friend, Tux using the calculator will win.

It gets interesting if we are able to answer the questions faster than a calculator does.

A screenshot showing the challenge.



The code needs to be merged and a quick cleanup is pending. I shall update the game url once I complete that.

Game link: [To be updated]

Repository link: https://github.com/SanjayKumarr/MindMath/

In my next post, I will take you through the entire activity.

Thanks


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