Notes and Assignments

Notes

• History of Javascript
• Components of a Web Page
• How to run Javascript
• Numbers in Javascript
• Local and Global Variables
• Basics of Arrays
• Basics of Objects
• Strings and Regular Expressions
• Function basics
• Basics of Version Control
• Git basics
• Review of Git commands
• GitHub basics
• Remotes and Branches
• GitHub Workflow
• Overall Project Workflow
• Functions as values
• Functions as closures
• Functions as a means for creating a scope/context
• Array Collection methods
• Function Usage Patterns
• Methods in objects and the need for this
• Function call forms and the value of this
• Object creation and prototypes
• Different stack implementations
• “Class” construction examples
• Object properties
• Survey of HTML
• Survey of CSS
• Introduction to the DOM (Document Object Model)
• Introduction to jQuery
• Introduction to DOM Events
• Timers
• Intro to Patterns: Iterator
• Design Patterns
• Patterns of code reuse
• Pattern: Observer
• Pattern: Command
• Pattern: Proxy
• Pattern: Visitor
• Module Patterns: Node/CommonJS modules
• Using require.js
• UMD modules
• Pattern: Composite
• Patterns: Adapter and Facade
• MVC: Model-View-Controller
• Using Templates: Handlebars
• Example of Designing a Model
• Basics of HTTP
• Introduction to XMLHttpRequest
• What we left out

Assignments and Labs

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Lab 1: Getting used to the basics
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Lab 2: Writing Tests
• Assignment 6
• Lab 3: Linting, Tasks
• Assignment 7
• Lab 4: Controllers, jQuery
• Lab 5: Collections
• Lab 6: Double-Linked Lists, History
• Project progress