JS101 Sessions 10 + 24 January 2017 - React + JS101 handbook, goals for this year

[katjad]

This post is covering the last two sessions, the first in the new year. We had some new members joining, and we also discussed our common and individual goals for the coming year.

2 weeks ago, we looked at how to get started with learning JS as we had three new members with little coding experience, and @TimHandy showed FreeCodeCamp and how to get started with that. People were very positive about that, and about learning in a group. - Some of us also had a go at some of the JS Assessment challenges by Rebecca Murphey. We did not only do pair but trio programming! But prototypal inheritance was a bit of a hurdle..

Today we had two presentations, and both had to do with React. @TimHandy gave an overview of how React components are structured and nested. He also talked about a practice project he did which was a collection of recipes https://github.com/TimHandy/recipe-box and I talked about the JS101 app, how it is structured, what technologies used, and some recent changes I made (switching between list and tiles views, adding a search bar - also using the react-redux connect method to get state to components; but I broke some tests! ;) )

We did some coding (FreeCodeCamp, Js Assessment, looking at @TimHandy's react app) but reserved some time towards the end for reviewing our goals for this year - think I will create another issue for that!

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