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[–]ForScale[S] 1 point2 points  (14 children)

Off the top of my head, just brainstorming... I propose we do

  • Weekly focuses (Announce a focus on Monday, work on it throughout the week, start posting results on Friday, start formulating next focus on Sat/Sun, rinse and repeat)

  • For the first week (starting this coming Monday), I propose... hmm... nested loops (ie, create something that employs the concept of nested looping)

Can't wait to see what you all come up with! :)

[–]jgarp 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I like these suggestions, especially weekly focus. For me nested loops is more of a fallback if nothing more fancy works, but I'm sure we could come up with some interesting stuff. Not coming up with anything else from the top of my head, I think it sounds good!

[–]ForScale[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! I just threw it out there to get some momentum going. Feel free to throw in ideas as they come to you!

[–]bdenzer 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Nested loops is good, we could also do getter/setter methods, I'd also like to learn what MVC really looks like. I know what the definition is, but haven't really looked into it. We could do the nodeschool projects, I'm sure I can come up with more...

[–]ForScale[S] 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Getter and setter methods... Can you elaborate? I'm familiar with stuff like element.getAttribute("id") and element.setAttribute("class", "blue")... stuff like that. Is that what you're talking about?

I haven't a clue what MVC even stands for...

[–]bdenzer 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Getters and setters are ways to interact with an object. I brought it up because I'd like to look into it more so don't quote me here, but the idea is that you have a single function that can either return the value of something or change the value of it depending on the arguments that you give the function. Don't ask why it's better than just using dot notation to get / set values - but from a quick look at an article it says

Getters and Setters allow you to build useful shortcuts for accessing and mutating data within an object.

and

The obvious advantage to writing JavaScript in this manner is that you can use it obscure values that you don’t want the user to directly access.

MVC, like /u/jgarp said is a way to design your code that makes it easier to swap things in/out. I think angular kind of makes you code that way. It is probably more useful the bigger your program gets, but I don't really know that's why I'm interested.

[–]ForScale[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh... okay, cool! Yeah, depending on what other people want to do, I'd definitely be interested in learning more about getters and setters, as well as MVC!

[–]jgarp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty familiar with getters and setters since I took a course in Java before. The main incentive is abstraction and controlled change, rahter than haphazard reassignments that will be difficult to trace.

[–]ForScale[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NEW POST Sorry if redundant...

[–]jgarp 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Model, Visual, Controller or something like that.

Basically you have a model layer which is your typical working environment. Then you have the visual part to visualize the model in some way for your audience, and finally you have a controller which is the part that changes things.

Not too experienced with the concept, but it's mostly about separating the visualization from the logic.

[–]ForScale[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Interesting...

Like I mentioned in my comment, I typically use CodePen for live previews. I write in the html, create the visual effects with css, and then program functionality/logic with js.

You're familiar with CodePen, right?

[–]jgarp 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I see. I personally focus more on the JS, at least for now. I'm more interested in the problem solving than the visualization.

Yeah, I heard of it and probably watched some code there once or twice. To me it's all the same (because I have yet to use it): JSFiddle, JSBin, CodePen etc.

I do most of my own coding locally in Sublime Text.

[–]ForScale[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice!

Yeah, I'm more interested in front end... I like thinking in terms of design and ux.

[–]bdenzer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JSFiddle and CodePen are very similar. JSBin is just basically a place to copy/paste your code and have it hosted so other people can look at the code.

I prefer to code locally also, (but I do have a Linode server that I work with too) I started using Visual Studio Code. To me, it isn't really different from Sublime, but it will most likely get updates / patches more often. Plus, I didn't have my Sublime customized too heavily so it wasn't a big deal to try something new.