Weekly Notes

Agenda

1. Welcome!
2. Introducing the instructional team
3. Introducing the course content
   • Learning JavaScript
   • Building systems to work with geospatial data
   • Year-long track, but can stand alone
4. Introducing the course style
   • You'll be building projects
   • You'll have skill-based reference material
5. Course resources review
   • Syllabus
   • GitHub organization
6. Installing tools we'll need
   • Browser
   • Code editor
   • Terminal
   • Git client
   • Slack
7. Intro to core web technologies

First "Project" -- Portfolio & Class Dossier

See https://github.com/musa-611-fall-2022/class-dossier for instructions.

Additional Tasks

• Ensure that you have a GitHub account
• Sign up for the class Slack organization
• Complete days 1-4 of 30 Days of JavaScript in preparation for our next session

Resources

• Code Editors
• Git Clients