henrysxie/ga-intro-to-js

Materials for teaching the Introduction to Javascript workshop at General Assembly

Objective

Build solid foundation in Javascript, a programming language essential to web development. After this course, you may delve deeper into particular areas such as AngularJS, D3, Phonegap, and much more.

Instructor

• name: Henry Xie
• email: henrysxie@gmail.com
• website: simplefractal.com

What do you need?

• Wifi
• Sublime Text 3
• Google Chrome
• Starter package: see below.

Starter package setup

• Download Starter Package by clicking "Raw" after following link
• Extract package
• Move extracted folder to desired location (e.g. My Documents)
• In Sublime Text 3, do: File -> Open, and navigate to folder location, mark entire folder, and click Open.

Class Topics

• This is a two-day course
• The first day is concerned with the fundamentals of the language, whereas the second is focused on application.

Day 1

Values

• Numbers and arithmetic
• Strings
• Booleans
• Expressions and Statements

Variables

• the var keyword
• Environment

Data Structures

• Lists
• Objects

Control Flow

• if/else
• while loops
• for loops
• Updating variables
• && and ||
• Equality tests

Functions

• Anatomy
• Local variables
• Modularity

Day 2

• The internet
• Client/Server model
• Basic HTML/CSS
• APIs
• Build Flickr API powered image carousel website