PCS JS Immersion

Portland Code School: JavaScript Immersion

Welcome to PCS. This site will host the course curriculum and links to various resources that we'll use throughout the course.

Throughout the course, this site will continue to be updated. If you notice any problems, please point them out so they can be fixed.

Classes

Welcome 10 Aug 2015
Expressions, Variables, and Primitives 10 Aug 2015
Conditionals, Truthiness, and Loops 11 Aug 2015
Introduction to Arrays and Functions 12 Aug 2015
Assertions and Array Methods 13 Aug 2015
Callbacks and Higher-Order Functions 14 Aug 2015
Objects and Properties 17 Aug 2015
Methods and this 18 Aug 2015
Functions as Objects and Factories 19 Aug 2015
Closures and Private Variables 20 Aug 2015
Constructors, Prototypes, and Inheritance 21 Aug 2015
Git, project management tools, and the terminal 24 Aug 2015
Node, NPM, Modules, and Async callbacks (Sudoku part 1) 25 Aug 2015
BDD Testing with Mocha 26 Aug 2015
Sudoku Solver (Part 2) 27 Aug 2015
Sudoku Solver (Part 3) 28 Aug 2015
Document Object Model 31 Aug 2015
AJAX basics 01 Sep 2015
JQuery 02 Sep 2015
RESTful APIs 03 Sep 2015
Testing in the Browser 04 Sep 2015
Labor Day Break Week! 07 Sep 2015
Express, RESTful APIs, and Servers 14 Sep 2015
Express Generator, Templating, and Cookies 15 Sep 2015
Static-Site Generator 1 16 Sep 2015
Static-Site Generator 2 17 Sep 2015
Static-Site Generator 3 18 Sep 2015
Introduction to Backbone (part 1-2) 21 Sep 2015
Backbone (part 2) 22 Sep 2015
Backbone (part 3) 23 Sep 2015
Backbone Persistence 24 Sep 2015
More Backbone Persistence! 25 Sep 2015
Persistence with Orchestrate 28 Sep 2015
Orchestrate with Queries 29 Sep 2015
Postgres, part 1 30 Sep 2015
Postgres and PSQL 01 Oct 2015
Postgres with Knex 02 Oct 2015
Websockets! 05 Oct 2015
Regular Expressions & Recursion 06 Oct 2015
Whiteboarding Practice 07 Oct 2015
Redis and Heroku 08 Oct 2015
Exceptions 09 Oct 2015
Security, Nonces, and Password Hashing 09 Oct 2015
Capstone Project, Week 1 16 Oct 2015
Capstone Project, Week 2 19 Oct 2015
Capstone Project, Week 3 26 Oct 2015
Capstone Project, Week 4 02 Nov 2015

Have Fun

We want everyone to have fun while they learn at PCS. An open, welcoming environment facilitates collaboration and learning. Please keep the code of conduct in mind and be friendly and accepting with everyone.