Welcome to JavaScript

Jessica Bell

Lesson 0

  • Who am I
  • Who Are You
  • Class Learning Objectives
  • Web Development
  • Set Up (Slack, GitHub, Sublime)
  • Thinking Like a Programmer
  • PseudoCode Exercise 

Jessica Bell

Developer: The Washington Post

Producer: DC Tech Stories

GA FEWD Graduate

 

Who Are You?

Class Title Class Title
Lesson 0 Installfest Lesson 11 Advanced APIs
Lesson 1 JS on the Command Line Lesson 12 Lab Time
Lesson 2 Data Types Project 2 Feedr - A Feed Reader
Lesson 3 Conditionals and Loops Lesson 13 Prototypal Inheritance
Lesson 4 Functions and Scope Lesson 14 Closures and This
Lesson 5 Project 1 Lab: Slackbot Lesson 15 Intro to Crud and Firebase
Lesson 6 Objects and JSON Lesson 16 Deploying Your App
Lesson 7 Intro to DOM & jQuery Lesson 17 Instructor Student Choice
Lesson 8 DOM & jQuery Continued Lesson 18 Lab Time
Lesson 9 AJAX and APIs Project 3 Your Single Page App
Lesson 10 Asynchronous JS and Callbacks Lesson 19 Final Project Presentations

Lets Go!

Web Development

The Fundamentals

What is the Internet?

 The Internet is a massive network of networks that connects millions of computers together globally. Information that travels over the Internet via a variety of languages known as protocols.

World Wide Web

Client/Server Model

Domain, Hosting, DNS

  • Domain/URL: www.kittens.com
  • Hosting: Server which domain points to
  • IP Address: 123.123.123.123

Back vs Front end

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

What Can We Do With JavaScript

React to Events

Access Content

Modify Content

Program Rules

JavaScript runs in the Browser

Or the Console!

Work Point

  • Set Up Slack
  • Set Up GitHub
  • Install Sublime Text
  • Install Node

Thinking Like A Programmer

Peanut Butter & Jelly

Pseudo Code Exercise 

Write a "program" that when a button is pressed, a light changes to that color

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