CIT 281 Schedule

Data Storage for Web Apps:
MongoDB & Mongoose

• Web Storage API: Browser can store key/value pairs locally, for a persistent data store
• The NoSQL Data Store: MongoDB. MongoDB stores JavaScript objects.
• RESTful Web Apps

Required Reading

1. 1. Install MongoDB.
   2. Learn Mongo.
   3. RESTful Web Apps. Slides in Canvas.
   4. ES6 Class Types: The Basics.
   5. ES6 Class Types: Inheritance

Optional Web Field Trips

Check your internet speed right from Google’s homepage.

Open Google’s home page, and search for ‘speed test.’ The first result will be Google’s own speed test.

281 WebDev

• Setting up a Testing Server w/ NodeJS

Required Reading

1. The Array.map method
2. Ch. 5: The jQuery getJSON method.
3. Ch. 6: The Server.
4. Learning npm

Agendas

Tuesday

1. Array.map method
2. Project 3.0
3. The Dogs API
4. Ch. 6: The Server (NodeJS/Express)

Thursday

1. Information about the midterm exam (Thur May 7)
2. The Final Exam is 12:30pm June 11
3. Project 3.1:
   • Handle the Dog API response
   • Replace DOM API methods (querySelector, createElement, …) with jQuery
   • $() selector vs querySelectorAll
   • Coding Practice
4. Our 281 Learn Markdown page has a link, Markdown in 3 Minutes.

Windows Users: Take the Plunge– Install a Unix Shell

• How to Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Scroll to end of article for the install steps.
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Setup Guide

Optional Web Field Trips

• An introduction to HTTP: everything you need to know (FreeCodeCamp)

WebDev 281

JSON, jQuery, & HTTP.

Download and Install the free Postman app for your OS.
(Mac users: be sure to put the postman.app file in your Applications folder, not your Downloads folder or anywhere else).

Readings

1. Ch. 5: The Bridge (AJAX & JSON)
2. Web APIs: Getting Images from Flickr
3. JSON Intro (111)
4. jQuery Intro (111)

Class Agendas

Tuesday

1. Build your P2 Repo: Accept the P2 Github invitation
2. JSON
3. jQuery
4. Web APIs

Thursday

1. Ch. 5: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and AJAX
2. Web APIs
3. Project 2: Getting Images from Flickr

Optional Web Field Trips

• 3 Reasons Marketing Majors Should Learn to Code
• Why robots won’t kill off the coder
• The Cat API, the Startrek API, and the Deck of Cards API. Three open APIs.

Welcome to WebDev 281

Web development makes heavy use of workflow tools available from the Unix Command Line (aka, shell).

It’s a Unix System (youtube).

Required Reading

• How to Sign In to Zoom for CIT 281 Meetings
• The Unix Shell. Scroll down to Learn Unix, and complete steps 1-4.
• Unix: File Access Modes: chmod
• Refresh Types (xkcd). Memorize command-shift-r (mac) / control-shift-r (win).

Class Agendas

Thursday

UO/Zoom Campus

• zoom.uoregon.edu
• Getting Started with Zoom (uoregon.edu).
  

  The article says that Zoom can be accessed three different ways, but we now have a fourth: Zoom is now available in Canvas.

  • How to Sign In to Zoom for CIT 281 Meetings

• Quick Quack 3/26
• Zoom Help Center