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William Carroll
f0803547e4 "Chord Drill Sergeant" -> "Learn Piano Chords"
In the spirit of "keep it simple, stupid", I am naming this application as
closely to the functionality as I can imagine.
2020-04-18 13:30:38 +01:00
William Carroll
5ca0fa2fcd Render a mobile-friendly piano
For now since I'm the only customer and I'm primarily making this for myself,
I'm styling the app specifically for my Google Pixel 4. If I find this app
useful, I will consider supporting other devices.

I'm using the Icons that I bought when I purchased the "Refactoring UI" book.

Other news:
- I bought the domain learnpianochords.app!

What's left:
- Style the "fine tune" tab of the preferences view
- Better support non-mobile devices like the browser and tablet devices
- Deploy the application to learnpianochords.app
- Redesign the "key" tab of the preferences view to sort the keys according to
  the circle of fifths
- Dogfood
- Simplify until I cannot simplify anymore
2020-04-17 13:35:29 +01:00
William Carroll
24692ab465 Properly support chord inversions
While I did change a lot of functionality, I also ran `elm-format` across the
codebase, which makes these changes a bit noisy.

Here is the TL;DR:
- Properly support chord inversions
- Ensure that the piano styling changes dynamically when I change the variables
  like `naturalWidth`
- Add start and end notes to define the size of the piano and which chords we
  create
- Support elm-format and run it across entire project
- Debug Misc.comesBefore
- Introduce a ChordInspector and debugger

TODO: Ensure that we only generate chords where all of the notes can be rendered
on the displayed keys.

TODO: Add preferences panel, so that I can do things like "Practice blues chords
in C and E with chord substitutions."
2020-04-12 16:43:34 +01:00
William Carroll
52eb456a0f Support basic tempo
Supporting Play/Pause events, and Increase/Decrease tempo.

TODO: Convert milliseconds to BPM
2020-04-11 16:09:11 +01:00
William Carroll
3562343c19 Generate all known chords and display randomly selected chords
First of all, Elm's purity is beautiful. I think every language should model
their error messages and develop experience after Elm. If I didn't have to
download packages, I don't think I would need an internet connection to
troubleshoot my program's errors. This is how helpful I find the compiler.

Now that that's out of the way, here's what I've changed since we've last
corresponded:
- Use Elm's Browser.element to create a reactive application with state
- Write a function to generate all of the chords about which CDS knows
- Move some code out of Main.elm into other modules
- Depend on List.Extra, Random, Random.Extra

What's left:
- Lots of work
- Instead of clicking a button to show a new chord, use a timer
- Add mobile-first styling (probably add TailwindCSS)
- Persist settings in LocalStorage (and then eventually create user accounts)
- Allow users to curate the list of chords they're interested in practicing
- Deploy the website and dogfood it

Unknowns:
- How can I handle tempo? I don't expect setInterval to be enough (maybe it
  is)...
2020-04-11 10:45:42 +01:00
William Carroll
b600f709b4 Model data and sketch ideas for Chord Drill Sergeant
Initialize an Elm application to build a MVP for the Chord Drill Sergeant
application. There isn't much to see at the moment. I'm just sketching
ideas. More forthcoming...
2020-04-10 23:03:01 +01:00