# Day 30: New Tetris Functions freeze, moveLeft, and moveRight

## **Today’s Progress:** 

Today I continued working building a basic Tetris game using JavaScript. I’ve been following the tutorial [“Code Tetris: JavaScript Tutorial for Beginners”](https://youtu.be/rAUn1Lom6dw) taught by Ania Kubow. Today I added functions for `freeze`, `moveLeft`, and `moveRight`.

## **Thoughts:** 

I’m really enjoying this project because it’s showing me how various JS concepts were in action. A lot of the challenges on fCC and in other places are often done in isolation so it’s difficult for a beginner to understand how they work.

Also, I’ve noticed that a lot of examples will use a mathematical example (like creating a loop that adds 1 each time) but don’t always use a more practical example. Don’t get me wrong, as a mathematics teacher I enjoy seeing how the math works out, but more often than not a lot of these concepts will be used to create muliple `div` boxes for your grid in Tetris (just as a more concrete example).

Overall, I’m happy with the progress I made. And I’m happy I decide to look for extra resources to learn these concepts. When I got frustrated yesterday there was a small part of me that wanted to give up, but I’m grateful I persevered. I’m also glad I reached out for help on the freeCodeCamp Discord server when I got stuck.

## **Link to work:** 

[https://github.com/ananfito/basic-tetris](https://github.com/ananfito/basic-tetris)

*You can read my full journal for #100DaysOfCode on [GitHub](https://github.com/ananfito/100-days-of-code)*