Weekly JavaScript Meet-ups at SAIC

This repo contains the materials, notes, and example code from our weekly JavaScript meet-ups.

The first few weeks of our Meet-ups will be devoted to covering the basics. An 30 min to 1hr of each meet-up will also be designated to individual help and 1-on-1 help with personal projects.

Links

Some notable JS tutorial, reference, and example links are featured below:

• Getting Started, Mozilla Developer's Network (MDN)
• Reference and Documentation, MDN
• Help and lots of questions, Stack Overflow

Discussion

Have a question or want to propose a Meet-up topic? Post on the oLab forum or create an issue on this repo.

Examples

All code snippets and demos from our meet-ups can be found in the examples folder in this repo.

Meet-up Breakdowns

Week 1 - 2

What is JavaScript?

A brief history of web scripting: the Java applet, Flash, and now JS.

Basics

1. HTML + CSS + JS
2. The browser as a context for running JavaScript
3. How code is run (top to bottom)
4. Writing JavaScript in Sublime text, .html and .js files, and //comments
5. Variable types: boolean, int, float, char, string, array, Object, and functions
6. The Object: properties, methods, and json
7. Variable scope (global vs local)
8. Logging and using the console
9. Rendering to the browser and DOM manipulation (with jQuery)