function, a new dpad color with its own function and argument was added, and the sizes were adjusted to have both
visible at once.
As mentioned earlier, I wanted to include an additional dpad to give an almost 3D effect. While I may explore more
animation and shadowing in the future, it was certainly a process figuring out proper positioning to get the yellow
dpad centered inside of the blue dpad, and it was quite the feeling of success getting there. The only significance
to the colors chosen are merely that they are my favorite color combinations. A major lesson that I have learned in
this project involves not being ashamed to ask for help or to look up assistance. There are so many resources that
exist out there, and I have always had a mindset as a teacher to make everything myself, but when it comes to this type
of work, I need to know that most of the proper code for what I want to do already exists, and that I need to simply
assemble it the way I choose.
submission and created a function to encapsulate it.
This wasn't as difficult as I made it out to be as I was still attempting to fully understand the concept.
I realized that I could define the function as what I was making. When I figured this out, the rest came to me
and I was able to reorganize my shape to fit inside the function. Much of getting it to work was trial-and-error,
and as such it felt earned to figure it out. My next major step involves making an attempt to introduce an
argument into the function, and specifically allow for my d-pad to scale in size in order to make either a smaller
d-pad inside of the current one or to even offset for a bit of a 3D effect.
directional pad, which is often referred to as a D-pad.
This was a struggling first step, and I will admit that I reached out for significant help to get this
process started. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, I looked up some starter code to get a start and
worked backwards from there in order to understand it fully and do what I wanted it to. Additionally,
it allowed me to experiment with a color fill that I wanted. My next step involves potentially creating a
function that will clean up the actual drawing process and reduce the number of steps.
Justin Toombs
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