WORKSHOPPER WISHLIST

[rvagg]

Want a NodeSchool Workshopper on a particular topic and it doesn't exist? Put your ideas down in this thread!

Want to make one but don't know what topic? Read through this thread!

[mikeal]

"NPM Basics to Super-User"

[ghost]

browserify, scientific computing (@mikolalysenko's modules), computer graphics

[rvagg]

helper-less async, each exercise presents asynchronous challenges of increasing difficulty and your job is to solve them without using require for anything other than local modules. Teach async programming the hard way.

[mikeal]

@rvagg well, technically I think they could use any flow control solution if we're only validating the input and output :) but that might actually be great, let people toy with different approaches, the solutions to which could actually be a great way to show the differences between them in a standard way.

[rvagg]

@mikeal no, for each exercise it would analyse the program source and make sure you have no non-core and non-local require() calls. The point being to force you to actually understand it instead of hiding behind a lib (or a pattern like promises .....)

[max-mapper]

(cross post from another repo)

some ideas for a browserify workshop:

• your first bundle
• NPM scavenger hunt (produce expected output by finding modules on npm and combining them)
• sound synthesis (e.g. http://requirebin.com/#6110294)
• something visual, like http://requirebin.com/embed?gist=5941408
• drag + drop reading files https://github.com/maxogden/filereader-stream#example

basically show how to build complex things using a group of simple modules

[timoxley]

ES6+

[timoxley]

• +1 npm scavenger hunt.
• meta-programming by manipulating AST (via esprima, burrito, etc)
• basics of crypto + https
• security basics e.g. prevent injection attacks, brute force, csrf
• Scaling NodeJS e.g. start with bad program does things like fs.*Sync calls then provide simulated traffic and test using benchmark… hint at various performance techniques e.g. always async, in-memory caching, leveldb, horizontal scaling with cluster and modularising app across multiple processes.

[timoxley]

• writing native extensions for node
• 20 compile-to-js languages in 20 minutes
• nodejs debugging basics (many people have no idea how to use the built in debugger?) and I think there are some advanced things you can do cc @sidorares
• crypto-currencies in node
• bug scavenger hunt (fix bad programs with subtle bugs (e.g. global vars, shared req/res buffers, & updating db records without locking, memory leaks, etc)

[sidorares]

I'd like to do ES6 workshopper as well ( Collections, Proxies, Generators )

[SomeoneWeird]

I've been working on a security workshop but haven't had much time to work on it, unfortunately.

[rvagg]

FYI we have a new repo for cataloguing and discussing existing and future workshoppers @ https://github.com/nodeschool/workshoppers

@linclark is going to take responsibility for curating it and keeping it clean (sort of) but the idea is to have an issue per workshopper, existing, ones under development and requested (wishlist) workshoppers.

[linclark]

I think I captured all of the ideas from here which haven't already been turned into a workshopper. Feel free to add an issue to https://github.com/nodeschool/workshoppers if I missed any.

[iancrowther]

+1 es6

[linclark]

There is an ES6 one on nodeschool.io, http://nodeschool.io/#count-to-6. If there is a set of additional ES6 exercises that don't make sense to add to that one, we could open up a new issue to track that on https://github.com/nodeschool/workshoppers

[timoxley]

Further workshopper requests should be opened on https://github.com/nodeschool/workshoppers/issues