Today we’re returning to JavaScript! We’re going to have a refresher before diving into React tomorrow.

Setup

By the end of today, you need to make sure you have the following set up on your machine:

• Node & npm
• create-react-app
• VS Code extension for JSX and Standard.js
• Exercism

Assignments

• Watch ES6 tutorial for beginners
• Practice JavaScript with Exercism:
  • Hamming
  • Gigasecond
  • Grade School
  • Scrabble Score

Resources

• JavaScript equality table

This week, we’ll be focusing on going further with Django before we dive into REST APIs.

Today, we’ll be talking about deploying our Django apps to Heroku and using PostgreSQL.

Assignments

Your project for the week will be Question Box. Today, you’ll start by getting this deployed to Heroku first thing.

Resources

• Checklist for deploying to Heroku
• Deploying to Heroku from a branch besides master
• Python Poetry buildpack

Today’s topics

• Q&A about Front End and Back End in Phase 3 and on the job
• Why and how to incorporate JavaScript into your Django application

Project

Habit Tracker or Code Snippets is due Friday at noon. Tonight and tomorrow should be finishing up functionality and polishing things up for presentations.

Resources

• Django and AJAX
• Unintrusive JS with Django

⭐ EXTRA/TMI

• jQuery -> This is not something I recommend using right now, but I include it here because a lot of the resources you will encounter about using JavaScript in a web browser will refer to it (like the article listed immediately above). It is not as popular as it once was, and it is incompatible with a framework like React. But you will sometimes come across it, and you may even end up working with it at your job, so you might as well recognize it when you see it and look it up if you ever need it.

Videos

• Morning Access Password: 7t+T.116
• Afternoon Access Password: 5v=8Fg5S

Today’s topics:

• follow up on our mob-programming exercise
• debugging tools and techniques
• using the shell and querying the database
• customizing forms
• talk briefly about technical presentations

Habit Tracker / Code Snippets project due Friday at noon

Technical presentations are this Friday at 1:00 pm

Thursday morning we will not have class in order to give you more time to work on presentations. We will attend Team One’s Phase 3 presentations on Thursday at 3:00 pm.

Link to info about technical presentations

Resources

• Django Form Reference
• Django Docs: overriding model form fields
• Crispy Forms
• Field lookups
• Django search on multiple fields with Q objects
• Python debugger commands
• Django Debug Toolbar docs
• Mob Notes app
• Clinton’s Mixed Pickle Song

Class video

• Morning Access Password: 8E*h^7#2

Today we’re not introducing anything new, but we will test our understanding and assumptions about django and do some live coding in class together. We’ll also practice reading errors, debugging, and getting back on track when it feels like you’re not making progress.

Mob Programming Exercise

We’re going to live code together in class using a practice called mob programming. This is like pair programming, with more than two people but still only one computer. We produce code as a group and everyone participates in figuring out what the code should be.

Mob programming exercise and rules

Resources

• Django cheat sheet
• Python debugger commands
• Django Debug Toolbar docs