Compiled Learning Objectives

Fetching data

• Define a client side Web API
• Define a server side API

Latency

• Define latency

Synchronous execution

• Define asynchrony
• Explain how synchronous execution works

Callbacks

• Define a callback
• Sketch the event loop
• Predict the order of logged numbers using the event loop model

Requesting from a server side API

• Fetch data from a server side API using a client side Web API

Promises

• Define a Promise
• Log a Promise to the console

.then()

• Chain then() on to a Promise

async/await

• Define syntactic sugar
• Write a function using async/await
• Explain what happens when an async function is awaited

Fetch Films

• Apply fetch to get data from an API

Codewars API Project

• Explain how components are used in web development
• Adapt an existing web component to show your own data
• Extend this web component to present more data from the Codewars API
• Create a new web component that presents data from the Codewars API

Hammock Driven Development

• Learn about different approaches to problem solving

JavaScript Challenges

• Translate a project’s requirements into code
• Practise TDD
• Work with multiple APIs

Mandatory Sprint 3 Codewars Katas

• Practice applying concepts related to the sprint’s prep material in a kata.
• Problem solve a new coding challenge.

Mentored pair programming

• Talk aloud when thinking about a problem.
• Write code in front of someone else.
• Analyse your strategies for solving problems in code.

Play the Bandit

• Develop your command line skills

Programmer Humour

• Practice rendering data from an API in a web app

Review your peers' LinkedIn profile

• Analyse a profile
• Explain your analysis with actionable insights

Think about what to do next

• Research the next steps after completing ITP

Teamwork Project S3

• Identify features for a product
• Write user stories for a product
• Explain the importance of reading and understanding the acceptance criteria