JavaScript Development

Team

Producer		Instructor
Matt Quinn	matt.quinn@generalassemb.ly	Michael Finneran	mrfinneran@gmail.com
Christopher Austin	christopher.austin@generalassemb.ly	Ray Haarstick	ray@relevant.us

Schedule

• September 27th - December 8th
• Tuesday and Thursday
• 6:30 - 9:30 class
• 5:30 - 6:30 office hours
• 51 Melcher St. Boston, MA 02210

What to Bring

• Your laptop (and charger with your name on it!)
• Snacks (in case you get hungry)

Unit Breakdown

Unit	Class	Project Start	Project Deadline
Unit 1: Fundamentals of JavaScript	1 - 7	Project 1: Class 5	Project 1: Class 7
Unit 2: The Browser and APIs	8 - 13	Project 2: Class 12
Unit 3: Persisting Data and Advanced Topics	14 - 17	Final Project: Class 15	Project 2: Class 16
Unit 4: Building and Deploying Your App	18 - 20		Final Project: Class 20

Lesson Breakdown

Class	Lesson		Class	Lesson
Day 1	Installfest		Day 11	Asynchronous JS and Callbacks
Day 2	Data Types hw		Day 12	Closures and This Closures and This
Day 3	Conditionals and Loops hw		Day 13	Advanced APIs
Day 4	HTML & CSS Review		Day 14	More APIs
Day 5	Functions and Scope		Day 15	Prototypal Inheritance
Day 6	Project 1 Lab		Day 16	Intro to Crud and Firebase
Day 7	Objects and JSON hw		Day 17	Deploying Your App
Day 8	Javascript and the Dom		Day 18	Templating
Day 9	jQuery		Day 19	Final Project Lab
Day 10	AJAX and APIs hw		Day 20	Final Project Lab
			Day 21	Presentations

Graduation Requirements

In order to successfully complete JSD, students must:

• Submit 80% of homework assignments
• Miss no more than two classes
• Successfully complete the course's final project

Homework

• Homework will be assigned at the end of class and collected at the beginning of the next class.

• Some homeworks will not be collected or graded such as reading assignments.

• Note: while late homeworks will be accepted, they will not receive feedback. Please schedule office hours if you would like feedback on late homework.