Word Up!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

The Past... and The Future

We wanted to try out Beaker because it seemed to have potential: support for so many different languages. We stuck to the ones we were most familiar with (the web languages and python), but in the future we might try out different, more obscure languages and see how they interact.

What it does

A simple yet difficult word game that will test your resolve.

How we built it

We used the Two Sigma Beaker API, which we couldn't find good documentation for. It was difficult at first, but after awhile it was cool seeing many different programming languages working together seamlessly.

Challenges we ran into

Installing Beaker was difficult, and strange things happened when porting code across different OSes. It was frustrating realizing the code wouldn't work on the lab website and required a local python installation or experience with docker.

The code can be downloaded / skimmed here: https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/569b0ab0-9c7e-492c-a842-7c37a16cbdf1

For the code to actually run, you must install Beaker or import to lab.beakernotebook.com (which has a slightly different user interface)