Westworld Lab

Title: OOP Westworld Lab Type: Lab Duration: 1 hr Creator: Thom Page Modified by: Kristyn Bryan, Taylor Darneille Topics: Object methods, Constructors

OOP Westworld Lab

WESTWORLD

From Wikipedia:

[Westworld] takes place in fictional Westworld, a technologically advanced, Western-themed amusement park populated completely by synthetic androids dubbed "hosts".

Make your own Westworld hosts

You are going to make some androids for the Westworld park!

Create a host

Make an object called host that has the following properties:

name
occupation

Give your host object a method called saySpecs.

The saySpecs method should output a message from the host listing the host's specifications -- the host's name and occupation:

=> "My name is Roget. My occupation is creator of Roget's Thesaurus."

Create some basic hosts

Now let's make a class so that we can easily make many hosts.

Make a class called BasicHost that takes parameters for name and occupation.

class BasicHost {
      constructor(name, occupation) {
    //stuff here
      }    
}

Make it so the BasicHost function will spit out a host object.

var host1 = new BasicHost("Roget", "creator of Roget's Thesaurus");

console.log(host1);

Output:

Make another instance with the BasicHost called host2.

Augment your basic hosts

Give your class a saySpecs method that will log all of the specs of the instance.

Create a few more basic host objects with your constructor.

Invoke the saySpecs function on those hosts.

Populate the world with hosts

How many hosts can we make???? We are going to populate an array with host objects using a for loop.

We will need a pool of names to draw from. Make an array called names, and add in a few names. Here's one if you want to use it:

taken from http://listofrandomnames.com/

const names = [
                   "Laila", "Jack", "Harley", "Hertha", "Darren", "Jolene", 
             "Loura", "Lona", "Davida", "Reena", "Leland", "Ta", "Jen", 
             "Linn", "Roslyn", "Margorie", "Rafaela", "Romona", "Shanel", "Stan"
            ];

Make an array called occupations and add in a few occupations. Here's one if you want to use it:

const occupations = [
                             "Clerical assistant", "Leaflet distributor", "Landowner",
                   "Special constable", "Anaesthetist", "Park-keeper", "Butler",
                   "Choreographer", "Blacksmith", "Chef", "Legal secretary",
                   "Song writer", "Librarian", "Landscape gardener"
                            ];

Make an empty array called hostArray. This is where we will store our host objects.

Write a for loop that will will run 100 times. Inside the for loop, push a new BasicHost into the array:

hostArray.push(new BasicHost());

After the loop, console.log the hostArray.

We have 100 hosts, but they have no values for their attributes:

FIGURE IT OUT

Make it so that when a new BasicHost is pushed into the array, that host will be assigned a random name and random occupation from the names and occupations arrays.

If it works, you should have an array of objects of a variety of different hosts.

hostArray: