Reading material for the eight lecture:

In week eight we will discuss the following topics:
• Structure for a basic SPA
• XMLHttpRequests
• API calls
• Async VS Sync

Here are resources that we like you to read as a preparation for the coming lecture:

Async VS Sync

Read about Asynchronous vs. Synchronous programming: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/synchronous-asynchronous-javascript/

APIs

Read about APIS: https://www.programmableweb.com/api-university/what-are-apis-and-how-do-they-work

XMLHttpRequests

XMLHttpRequests: https://www.kirupa.com/html5/making_http_requests_js.htm

The last one about promises...