Now we will take a quick look at a more involved example of a “Hello World!”–type application, the game “Guess The Letter.” We’ve included this example to illustrate how much more Canvas programming is done in JavaScript than in the Canvas API.
In this game, shown in Figure 1-4, the player’s job is to guess the letter of the alphabet that the computer has chosen randomly. The game keeps track of how many guesses the player has made, lists the letters he has already guessed, and tells the player whether he needs to guess higher (toward Z) or lower (toward A).
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