General list of topics

This page contains a list of the topics to be covered.

Programming

• History of Javascript
• Components of a web-page (HTML/CSS/Javascript)
• Javascript consoles (Browsers, Node)
• Core Javascript / DOM / Node extensions
• Numbers / Strings
• Regular expressions and string manipulation
• Arrays
  • Standard methods
  • Arrays as queues/stacks
  • Iteration
  • Higher-order functions (forEach/map/filter/reduce)
• Dictionaries
  • “object literals”
  • Iteration using for-in
  • Iteration via array iteration over the keys
• Functions
  • Definitions and calls
  • Functions as values, closures
  • Using functions to create private scope
  • Functions used for late initialization
  • Functions that rewrite themselves
  • Functions used for init-branching
  • Functions called only once
• Equality gotchas
  • == vs ===
  • null vs undefined vs NaN
• Objects
  • as key/value pairs
  • using this in object methods
  • Object.create and prototypes
  • Constructors and new
  • The value of this depends on how a function is called
• Global vs local variables. The global object
• DOM Interaction
  • Loading script in page
  • Timers
  • The DOM tree and manipulating it
  • Events
    • The Event loop
    • Handling DOM events
    • Event bubbling, defaults
  • Introduction to jQuery
• Using XMLHttpRequest
  • Directly
  • Via jQuery
  • JSON
• Design Patterns
  • Components of a design pattern
  • Creational / Structural / Behavioral patterns
  • Creational
    • Constructor pattern
    • Module pattern
    • Singleton pattern
    • Mixin pattern
  • Structural
    • Facade
    • Proxy
    • Adapter
    • Flyweights?
  • Behavioral
    • Observer pattern
    • Publish/Subscribe pattern
    • Mediator pattern
  • Architectural: Model-View-Controller patterns
  • Async Patterns
    • Callbacks
    • Promises
    • Throttling

Practices

• Pair programming
• Testing
  • Tests first
  • Writing unit tests
  • Writing integrated tests
  • Design small separately testable pieces
  • Testing via node and in browser
  • Stubs, Mocks, Spies
• Code style
  • ESLint rules
• Documentation
  • Markdown
  • JSDoc basics
  • Doccu?
• Version Control Systems
  • Git and GitHub
  • Using GitHub’s Issues
• Deployment, Bundling