Week 3

As always: make a copy of this repository to commit changes to

Class Outline

Week 2 Review & Introduction

• Homework/lab discussion
• JSHint installation
• Opening Atom from GitHub Desktop

Functions continued

Section 1: Using functions

• Writing functions
  • Naming functions
  • Providing arguments
  • The function body
  • The return statement
  • Function values
• Thinking functionally
  • Everything in a program is data
  • Functions are data transformations
• Lab 1

Live coding: refactoring code into functions

• Step through the code and discuss
• Imagine alternative code flows
• Organize the code
• Make code DRYer ('don't repeat yourself')
  • Redundant code is a headache waiting to happen

underscore.js

Section 2: Library overview

• Selecting elements
• Array utilities
• each: No more for loops!^*
• Lab 2

^*Mostly!

HTML & CSS Introduction

HTML & CSS

• Review our uses thus Far
• What HTML does
• What CSS does

Developer tools (other than console)

• Elements
• Sources

Homework Assignment (Due: Sunday, February 7)

• Complete Code Academy HTML/CSS (Change of plans: don't do this yet!)
• Complete Week 3 Labs (Lab 2, Part 4 is an Optional Challenge)
• Complete Week 3 Assignment (Change of plans: don't do this yet!)