In this course we hope to become comfortable with the bulk of the javascript language from the black box perspective. As in, here are all the things javascript understands (functions, strings, numbers, looping, etc.), without getting into how it understands them.

Once there we will look into the box a little bit in order to understand how programs are executed both in the web browser, and in node.

Finally, we will simulate building a more complicated application, and go through four important things programmers do often

• fix bugs
• add features
• refactor
• make other programmers happy (all the little things, like well documented, clean, logged, monitored, and tested programs)

We will build an app that facilitates the make time philosphy of productivity. So yes, another to-do app, but with a little extra :)

The requirements for this program include:

• making a list of high level priorities, and being able to arrange them in priority order
• making a to-do list for a particular day, and tagging a to-do item to signify allignment with a particular high level priority
• reflection notes for particular days (meant to be filled in at the end of a day)

I will provide a prototype of this application. And the classes will be as follows:

• day 1 I show that there is a bug in the prototype, you must find and fix the bug
• day 2 I request a new feature be added to the application
• day 3 I request another new feature be added to the application
• day 4 I show how to tie a pretty bow around our application, and you modify it to look how you think it should look

• thorough javascript overview
• eloquent js
• js cheat sheet