{"id":12243,"date":"2015-09-11T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T14:15:31","slug":"javascript-another-exercise-in-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/javascript-another-exercise-in-randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript:  another exercise in randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor continues to explore random functions.<\/h1>\n<p>In several of my earlier posts &#8211; <a href=\"?p=5254\">this one,<\/a> for example &#8211; I talk about random numbers simulated by computer functions.  Today&#8217;s post shows another such application.<\/p>\n<p>When the button is clicked, a sentence will be written below it whose letters are sized randomly by a Javascript function.  The button can be clicked repeatedly to watch the letters&#8217; sizes change.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/javascripts\/jrand.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><button onclick=\"textwrite()\" style=\"display:block;margin:auto\">Click me!<\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"output\">\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/\">w3schools.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor continues to explore random functions. In several of my earlier posts &#8211; this one, for example &#8211; I talk about random numbers simulated by computer functions. Today&#8217;s post shows another such application. When the button is clicked, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/javascript-another-exercise-in-randomness\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Javascript:  another exercise in randomness<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,837],"tags":[205,1038,1037,1036],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-web-design","tag-javascript","tag-random","tag-random-text","tag-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}