alexanderism55: asynchronous programming, 3 weeks

[alexanderism55]

Asynchronous Programming

Learning Objectives

• 🥚 You understand the JavaScript Event Loop, and can demonstrate this by using setTimeout and setInterval to schedule simple tasks.
• 🥚 You can explain why Asynchronous Programming is important for programs that have blocking and non-blocking tasks.
• 🥚 You can explain the basics of the Client/Server model and HTTP requests and can fetch data from RESTful APIs.
• 🐣 You can break down an asynchronous problem into smaller tasks and solve it using promises. This includes identify which tasks depend on each other and which are independent:
  • dependent tasks: The return value from one task is required to start the next task, these must be completed in a specific order - .then
  • independent tasks: These tasks do not use each other's return values, they can be completed at the same time - Promise.allsystem.
• 🐣 You can fetch data from an API and render it into the DOM using /api-calls, /handlers and async/await syntax.
• 🐣 You can write unit tests for functions that return promises using async/await syntax.

[alexanderism55]

Week 3

I Need Help With:

• The whole idea of asynchronous programming.

  What went well?

• Fetch and promises.

  What went less well?

• The concept of post and put

  Lessons Learned

• The basics of interaction with a server sort of. Im getting the hang of it

  Sunday Prep Work

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[alexanderism55]

Me

What was not clear, where did you get stuck?

• Post and put. This module is the most challenging aspect of this course by far.

What was clear, what did you master?

• Promises

  Where can you still use some help?

• Post and put

  Where can you help others moving forwards?

• Im afraid to say that i do not feel like i can help anyone on this model yet.

The Course

What can there be more of?

• Mini projects

  What can there be less of?

What material were most helpful (from HYF or elsewhere)?

• Bunch of websites, not exactly one.

  What HYF material was least helpful?

Any suggestions for future classes?

• More mini projects

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[danielhalasz]

• The whole idea of asynchronous programming.

hm, any specific reason for the confusion?

• The concept of post and put

POST is usually for sending new data to a server and PUT is for changing an already existing data and PATCH is for updating only one detail about an existing data

[danielhalasz]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31089221/what-is-the-difference-between-put-post-and-patch