Rain Crowson from Paul Grenyer
Date: 9:00 am to 4:45 pm, Thursday 5th October 2017
Location: The King’s Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH
Price: £50.00 per person
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: Laptop with wifi, modern browser, text editor
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/242461849/
JavaScript is amazing.
It is a powerful, simple, infuriating, elegant and sometimes irrational programming language which was born in a hurry and can now do almost anything you can imagine. It can make whizzy websites, speak to databases, and draw maps, it can fly drones, make games, and build apps. You can run it on your watch or on your phone, on any web page or on hundreds of virtual servers.
And if you’re reading this you’re probably contemplating learning it.
This day-long workshop aims to cover enough ground to give you a broad base from which to start your quest. We’ll use plenty of practical exercises to explore the language. We’ll cover some of the tricky parts which often mystify people – especially handling asynchronous code, which is one of the language’s great strengths. We’ll spend most of our time in the browser, but we’ll also play around with node.js, JavaScript’s foremost server-side environment. There’ll be time to survey some of the different tools and frameworks which are popular with JavaScripters at the moment. As well as all this we’ll explore JavaScript’s history, its culture and community, and the factors behind its explosive growth. Perhaps most importantly we’ll introduce a set of resources which’ll help you continue your learning independently.
You’ll need to come equipped with a laptop, and you should have a modern browser installed, along with a text editor you’re comfortable using. You don’t need to have a lot of knowledge or experience to join in, though any familiarity with another programming language will help a lot.
There’s a lot to get into one day, so please bring lunch and Neontribe will be buying the first round in the pub straight after the workshop.
Rupert Redington
Rupert ran away from the theatre to become a web developer at the turn of the century. Since then he’s been making mistakes at Neontribe as fast as he can, learning from a reasonable percentage of them. Recently he’s been using Javascript to help teenagers talk to doctors, Americans to buy airline tickets and everybody to find their way to the loo.
“Rupert did a fine job of making this an entertaining subject and his enthusiasm for js was infectious.†– Matthew Shorten
“Thoroughly enjoyed it! Presenter was excellent. Would be interested in any other JS courses that he runs.†-Stephen Pengilley
“I’d certainly sign up for other courses Rupert hosts in a flash. This was an introduction and as such it was perfectly positioned (in my humble…), but if ever there’s an “intermediate†course which goes into more depth with core principles & real-world use of loops, arrays, functions & objects that would be great.†– Steve Harman
