Talking To Aliens!

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Universal Pictures/Sci-Fi-Fantasy 

Tonight!

• capital mission... 
  • Austin!
• HackVictoria (windward, battlesnake)
  • overnight, IBM on board
  • previous winner got internship
• why JavaScript?
• Frontend examples
  • local quotes
  • leaflet
• Backend examples (for later!)
  • Nitrous and Bluemix

What did we learn?

• simple output using just text and a variable
• text (strings!) versus numeric and Boolean expressions!
• conditional statements and logic (if/else)
• composing data into objects
• modifying object state
• collections of data in an array
• pushing cows!
• building your own API with functions
• variables and scope

What does this mean?

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript

• IS THAT ALL THERE IS?!?!
• what about all of these frameworks?
• MVC
  • Angular, React
• UI frameworks
  • Bootstrap, Skeleton
• Databases?!
  • MongoDB

Where does it lead to?

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript

Democratizing Data!!!

Where does it lead to?

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript

Democratizing Data!!!

but let's start a little less massive...

Store this file, and look at it in your browser... 

https://github.com/ycoady/FortUVic2016/blob/master/quotesFrontEndOnly.html

HOW DOES THAT WORK!??!

you can peak at the array of objects on the server here:

http://ourquotes.mybluemix.net/