(As before, we’re not expecting you to finish all of these activities! Pick the ones which are interesting and challenging to you, and feel free to work with the people around you.)
- Break into groups of ~4 members. Each member is in charge of finding out about a specific javascript concept and writing a small codepen that demonstrates it.
- Come back together and give quick whiteboard talks about your concepts
- Concepts:
- First-Class and Higher Order Functions
- Prototypes/Inheritance
- Bind, Apply, Call
- Closures
- Much of Web development is learning to react to events, as a first foray Event Handling write a small codepen like this that creates a simple html element and responds to an event of your choice. A list of possible events is available here.
- Part of the power of JavaScript is that it is supports imperative (like C), object oriented (like C++ or Java), and functional (like Fortran or Lisp) programming paradigms. Its likely you've run into the first two through previous software classes, but if you are new to functional programming now is a great time to get an introduction
- Read one or more of the following (in increasing order of read time):
- Use what you learned (do some of the following):
- Discuss what you learned with a partner
- Write two small codepens that do a simple task, such as displaying the current time. Write one in an object-oriented fashion, the other in a functional one.
- Write a jsfiddle that uses JavaScripts functional tools like map() and reduce()
##Debugging Exercises
- Try some or all of these exercises (Please fork the codepens before editing them)
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Find a partner or small group
- Write a similar simple debugging exercise
- Exchange them