controller as should capture this in another variable (often vm)

[tgaff]

see https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide#style-y032

function SomeController($scope, $log) {
    var vm = this;
    vm.title = 'Some Title';

This is likely something that most students won't need, but it is simple enough to do from the beginning. For now I'm putting it at the bottom as an "introduce later" since that's what we discussed but I'd be open to changing that if there are new opinions.

[tgaff]

I'm leaning toward using this immediately. Any student that does a project stands a reasonable risk of running into this and the additional mental load from the beginning is (I think) quite small.