Vocabulary Memory Cards

April 2020

Summary

Due to the remote learning environment caused by Covid in early spring, teachers needed new ways to teach their students while still making classes fun and interactive. This project was a simple game designed to allow students to learn vocabulary through the classic game of memory cards. The teacher could play the game on screen share during class and letting the students pick which cards to flip, while students themselves could amuse themselves outside of class by playing the game and aiming for a high score. The project was designed with extensibility in mind, and thus could easily be expanded to have more rows/columns (greater difficulty) as well as different sets of vocabularies.

Takeaways

  • Pure Javascript/HTML/CSS - As I didn't use any libraries for the project, I learned how to directly manipulate the DOM using Javascript, as well as how to implement a simple game of memory cards. The most difficult part for me was actually the formatting, and getting more experience with CSS would definitely have helped.