week-3-intro-to-javascript.md

Week 3:

Introduction to Javascript (and Programming)

Topics/Todos:

• If you are new to coding: complete this short course: https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-to-code-with-blockly/informationals/welcome-to-learn-to-code-with-blockly

• HTML vs. CSS vs. JS

• Javascript: variables, data types, conditionals, operators, functions, loops, arrays

• Local storage, session storage, and cookies and their differences

  Write programs using each of them to test your understanding.

• Debugging in the browser and JavaScript Debugging for Beginners | Julie Pagano

Read the above once you completed the basics and try debugging any scripts you wrote.

• https://javascript30.com/ - Enroll in this free course and try to complete a minimum of 3 projects a day, to complete the entire course in 2 weeks. Skip the projects including topics that you don't know yet. Cover them in the next week after completing the week's topics.

Important: Store all the projects you do somewhere online. You can use replit, codepen, etc.

• Week 3 Task 1:

For this task, work in groups of 3 - 5 members. Once you complete all the above tasks, drop a message to reveal the task and start working on it.

Try to complete this initial version of the task ASAP. Once you complete it, drop a message in the batch’s group for the next steps.

Note: Only proceed to the below sections after completing the above task.

• Git - Version control systems, branches in git, basic git commands - add, push, pull, fetch, merge.
• Github - Create a GitHub account, use basic git commands to push any of your projects to Github.
• Website hosting Publishing your website - Learn web development | MDN
• Using Github pages, host any website you developed: Deploy Your Portfolio Site to GitHub Pages for Free!

Resources:

Students need not refer to every resource given. Select any 1/2 resources for a single topic

• [Recommended] https://pythontutor.com/javascript.html#mode=edit

Use this website to visualise the JS scripts you write (trying this will be more helpful once you complete looping in JS)

Youtube Videos:

• Videos from 100Devs bootcamp: Free Software Engineering Bootcamp - #100Devs - YouTube

  Cover the JS videos in the playlist to cover topics for the week

• JS Full course - 3.5 hrs

• JavaScript Crash Course For Beginners - 2 hrs

Javascript Courses

Choose 1 - 2 courses to cover this week's topics

• [Free Certificate] Freecodecamp - JS Course
• Opentechschool course
• Scrimba course
• Codecademy course
• [Recommended]The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
• Foundations | The Odin Project - Javascript
• JavaScript Tutorial

GIT:

• [Recomended] Learn Git interactively
• Git Guide
• Github basics
• Commit Messages | The Odin Project
• Front End - Build a basic website - Git intro section

Weekly Practical Tasks:

Keep these ready at the time of your weekly review

• https://github.com/TheOdinProject/javascript-exercises Complete all the exercises and push them to a GitHub repo.

• Share your GitHub profile link

• Share the link of your website deployed using Github pages

• Share link to your Javascript30 projects

• Create a simple web page with a dark and light theme. Try to store the users' preference of dark vs light theme using local storage/session storage and cookies. Store the code using these 3 different approaches in 3 files.