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JS101 Session 15 Nov 2016 - Webpack, more resources, rediscovering Gitter #37

Open katjad opened 8 years ago

katjad commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the delay, used to write these much quicker!

This time @TimHandy gave a presentation about Webpack which I think was great at clarifying what Webpack is, and what it does. You can find the slides here https://goo.gl/pwXJUV Also, here is the link to Tim's footballl manager app that is good to see a webpack configuration in action - and which he talked about it in the session two weeks earlier! https://github.com/TimHandy/football-manager

Our Gitter channel had been quiet for a long time, but we started using it again, and it has seen quite some traffic since then! You can find the 'entrance' to it in the README of the discussions repo: https://github.com/codehuborg/discussions/

You can find some interesting links there, here some of them:

  1. @rinse0ut mentioned a Hackday at Gravitywell, it is happening in two days, on Thursday https://www.gravitywell.co.uk/latest/hackathon/posts/hackvember-2016-join-us/
  2. We talked about Functional Programming, again! Here a very cute-looking guide, "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming: https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ also via @rinse0ut
  3. @claudialoch mentioned a mobile app for learning several programming languages incl Javascript + HTML and CSS, called SoloLearn. It looks really good, I tried the start of JS. And it's free https://www.sololearn.com/

Also, welcome to the group, @Techy-G and @claudialoch! @Techy-G brought a drive with CBT (Computer based training) material which people are welcome to explore (think she is bringing it again next time) - this is not necessarily JS, but IT and programming in general.

Plan for next time:
One thing we might want to do, is write some more tests for our app, I had created a branch where I added some tiles and also functionality to add more information for each resource, but did not write tests for that. I will also try to give a little presentation about the app, so we can pick up work on it again. Was there anything else for next time?

Something else of interest for the group:
@rinse0ut has for a while been thinking about creating and app or nodeschool-style 'workshopper' for the group, which would serve as a guide for learning with the JS101 group and has started it now! You can find it here: https://github.com/rinse0ut/js101-guide
I played with it today (it took me a while to get all the dependencies in place ;)) it's got a few surprises ;)

/cc @CodeHubOrg/js2016