(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 jsfiddle that demonstrates it.
- Come back together and give quick whiteboard talks within your group -- teach the rest of the group about your concept.
- 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 into event handling, write a small jsfiddle 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
- Come up with a simple task such as displaying the current time. Write two small jsfiddles to complete the task: one in an object-oriented fashion, the other in a functional one.
- Read through and understand the documentation for some of JavaScript's functional tools (for instance,
Array.prototype.map()andArray.prototype.reduce()) and practice using them in jsfiddle.
##Debugging Exercises
- Try some or all of these exercises (Please fork the jsfiddles before editing them)
- With a partner or small group...
- Write a similar simple debugging exercise
- Exchange them