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Curriculum for Professional JavaScript classroom workshop.
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Curriculum for Professional JavaScript classroom workshop.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gmac/professional-javascript
• Owner: gmac
• Created: 2014-12-28T03:23:55.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-07-20T21:40:48.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T22:19:47.406Z (7 months ago)
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• Forks: 18
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# Professional JavaScript

This workshop introduces professional-level JavaScript development. The curriculum covers foundation concepts of JavaScript programming and basic computer science. The goal of this workshop is to establish a technical knowledge base for our participants to continue building upon in their careers. While this is a beginner-level course, the curriculum is expansive and highly technical. Participants of all experience levels should come prepared to be challenged.

## Pre-requisites

You should be familiar with basic HTML and CSS. A pre-course primer on JavaScript will also help you succeed. You can pursue free lessons on these subjects at [dash.generalassemb.ly](http://dash.generalassemb.ly).

## Takeaways

- Foundation concepts of computer science.

- Intermediate-level concepts of the JavaScript programming language.

- Foundation knowledge of how JavaScript makes the web interactive.

## Day 1: Fundamentals

Our first session will cover the basics of computer science, using JavaScript as our language of study. For participants with past programming experience, this cirriculum will be generally familiar.

**Morning**

 - Introduction

 - JavaScript Fundamentals

   - Datatypes

   - Variables

   - Conditionals

   - Arrays & Objects

   - Enumeration

   - Passing Value vs. Reference

**Afternoon**

 - Simple Functions

 - Intro to DOM

   - Selecting elements

   - Reading and writing document data

   - Binding event handlers

 - Lab exercises

## Day 2: Functions & Object-Orientation

Our second session will deep-dive into the exceptionally unique aspect of JavaScript: Functions. The concepts discussed here are significantly more advanced than those in session-1, so participants should come prepared to be challenged.

**Morning**

 - Introduction

 - **Part 1: Basic Functions**

   - Arguments & Return

   - The "arguments" Object

   - Invocation vs. Reference

   - Declaration vs. Assignment

   - Functions as First-Class Objects

 - **Part 2: Closure & Scope**

   - What is Closure?

   - What is Scope?

   - Declarations & Scope Chain

   - Hoisting

 - Scope exercises

**Afternoon**

 - **Part 3: Contextual Invocation**

   - What is "this"?

   - Function Invocation

   - Call Invocation

   - Method Invocation

 - **Part 4: Prototypal Inheritance**

   - Constructor Invocation

   - Prototype Chains

   - Using "hasOwnProperty"

   - Using "typeof" and "instanceof"

 - Invocation exercises