🎉 December 5, 2016: CodeLab 010/Open Source Holiday Edition in Session :alembic:

Location: Pro Desk Space (Thanks, @jorggaubmann!)

Attendees: @kangashley @leighphan @svincent @MichelleNicole22 🌟 @josephkoon 🌟 @greedylan 🌟 @interdigitize (🌟 = first-timer)

Stand Up 🙌

Leigh would like to work on interactive mapping in the new year.
Simeon is interested in offline experiences–web that works on limited connection. He's here to mentor!
Michelle is a freelance front-end web developer and is involved with Girl Develop It LA.
Dylan found us through a past attendee, Sam. He started learning code on his own and thought it would be helpful to learn with others.
Joe recently left a start-up he founded and moved down here from SF. He's interested in business tech.
Ashley is working on apps for grad school programs in CS and product/service design.
Kamie is brushing up on JavaScript through a Launchpad project for keeping time on presenters and Codewars to prep for a bootcamp.

24 Pull Requests until Christmas
Leigh met Julius, an organizer of a Friday cybersecurity meetup in Garden Grove.
Group Quarterly Projects 💡: In 2017, we'd like to create short-term group projects, constrained by deadline. This would be a great way for all skill-levels to commit to a short project, build skills and teamwork, and add to our portfolios. Civic-minded projects (a la Code for America) would be a great starting point. Let's brainstorm!
Lightning Talks ⚡️: We want to give you a chance to highlight how your background in art, geography, journalism, etc. relates to our collective coding pursuits (or not).
San Diego Code Kitchen's art+code show this Saturday, 12/10
GDI LA's Holiday Party next Thursday, 12/15
OC UX's Holiday Party next Tuesday, 12/13

S/o to Simeon for mentoring!
Joe-Dylan and Leigh-Michelle paired on Exercism 🖐 "JavaScript does inheritance through functions" ".prototype creates methods" "JavaScript doesn't do class, but rather function as class" "instantiate function with new to create a new object" ".prototype is where you put the properties to be inherited"
Kamie was refactoring:

y = 2
arr = [a, b, c, d]
length = arr.length - 1;
offset = arr.length - y;

Cloning: .splice() to insert and remove items of an array (vs. .slice())

Array.prototype.splice.call(arr)
clone = arr.splice()

Joe asked about meetups in LA: @fullstackla (on Meetup), Learn to Code LA, Maptime LA, js.la, Hack for LA, LA Software Workshops
Simeon, Leigh, and Ashley talked indie games: Thomas Was Alone, Braid, Gerrymandering, Hyper Light Drifter, Beglitched

Pair programming with Exercism
CodeLab Camp 🍊: Group sprints and quarterly projects, lightning talks, reviving Code for OC (a former local brigade of Code for America)
CodeLab Floating Library 📚: We invite you to bring some books to share at future meetups. Code-related not required.

Look out for "CodeLab" on Meetup to RSVP and invite others. See you next time! 👋