JS101 Session 29 Nov 2016 - Testing Tuesday :)

[katjad]

So this time we did a bit more coding! For some of us it was all about testing. We set up a basic testing environment with Mocha and Chai and tested a method that @timhandy had written for a project. Thanks @rinse0ut for the help!

We did talk briefly about how complex JS development seems to have become. This article was mentioned: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f#.78puydjbd

I think we agreed that it is really valuable to learn JavaScript as a language, not just focus on frameworks. We are doing a bit of both really. This is also an interesting article btw, from last year but still relevant I think https://medium.com/@_cmdv_/i-want-to-learn-javascript-in-2015-e96cd85ad225#.p7asf6w1t

Here again key resources we think are good:
Books:

• Eloquent JavaScript http://eloquentjavascript.net/
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja https://www.manning.com/books/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninja
• You don't know JS https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
  Curriculum:
  Free Code Camp https://www.freecodecamp.com/
  Courses on Treehouse and Udacity also good, but not as comprehensive as Free Code Camp I think

As mentioned last time, @rinse0ut is putting these and more in a terminal-based JavaScript guide, that can then easily be updated. https://github.com/rinse0ut/js101-guide

I want to focus on working on our App ('organisations-database') in the next two weeks, just hope I can find some time!

Skills Festival Recruitment event (tomorrow!)
I was going to mention this yesterday and remind people:
https://techspark.co/spark-skills-festival/
1 December 11.00-14.00 at the Watershed

Welcome to the group, @ferorus!

If you have anything to add, please do! It was great seeing you all again, also learning some more about testing was really helpful - especially the principle of starting really small and get that to work (which I still do too little I think)

/cc @CodeHubOrg/js2016

[katjad]

Oh, and bring Christmas cookies etc next time :)

[Gicela]

As always, a very good write up @katjad Thank you.