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Andreas Kratzel
2,858 PointsThis challenge is a bit frustrating to me
Does anybody else feels like this? I feel like the challenge was totally doable and logic until this very part with the canvas.beginPath() etc.
It felt like a gigantic skill-jump from 0 to 100 real quick (or in 5:59 :) ).
So is this part really a common real-life problem that eventually has to be recreated somehow/somewhen or do you think it is for demonstration purposes only?
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Erik Nuber
20,629 PointsThe canvas is new in HTML5. It is a bit confusing. I don't know how often you will need to create a drawing pad. Perhaps it might be useful as well if you were creating a game, or wanted to get creative and have something draw itself.
The other lessons in the jquery basics section are far more useful. Like creating a select menu or password verification. These are things I can see you using all the time. I'm sure someone else will have an opinion on this as well but, there is no reason you can't look things up if ever faced with something like this.
Here is a demo link you can check out. It uses the canvas tag to create an animation. Pretty sweet.
Xayaseth Boudsady
21,951 PointsIt's really not meant to teach you anything, but introduce you to the canvas element along with some method you can use to construct lines. More like an intro, than anything. There's other courses that will go in dept of how to best make use of the canvas tag.