📅 Today’s topics

• Lists
• Dictionaries
  • keys
  • values
  • methods

🎯 Project

Python Word Frequency

🔖 Resources

• Beginner Tips for Learning Python
• Python notebooks
• A Byte of Python
• Official Python docs

📹 Code, Slides, and Video from Class

• Notes
• Code
• Morning Class Recording Access Passcode: PLDfbD7+

Welcome to Back End Development, where we’ll be learning about:

• Python
• Django and back-end web development
• Databases
• Deploying Django applications

📅 Today’s topics

• Running Python
• Syntax differences between JS and Python
• Python
  • variables
  • if statements
  • while loops
  • Input and output with input and print
  • Functions

🎯 Project

House Hunting With Python

🔖 Resources

• Beginner Tips for Learning Python
• Python notebooks
• A Byte of Python
• Official Python docs

📹 Code, Notes, and Video from Class

• Notes
• Morning Class Recording Passcode: ?n@=bi9X

This week we will review, reinforce, and test our understanding and assumptions about JavaScript. We’ll 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.

In-class Project: Team 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 how to implement product features and writing the code.

👉🏾 Team programming repo and instructions

🎯 Week-long Project: iTunes Search App

This project is due on Thursday of this week. You’ll work on it incrementally each day this week.

Link to project assignment

End-of-phase Technical Presentations

We’ll talk more about this over the course of the week. For tonight, read the information about how technical presentations work.

🦉 Code & Video

• Review of map, filter, and arrow functions on repl.it

Today’s topics

• Using Fetch to create, read, update, and destroy data (CRUD)
• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, DELETE
• HTTP status codes

🎯 Project: Your first web application: a single page note-taking app

Link to assignment invitation

🔖 Resources

• json-server documentation
• MDN HTTP Overview
• HTTP status codes
• Using the Network Tab in Chrome Dev Tools
• Eloquent JavaScript: HTTP and Forms
• More detailed primer on Fetch

⭐️ EXTRA/TMI

For more information about how the internet works and the mechanics of a request over HTTP, check out this comic by the always brilliant Julia Evans!

• Julia Evans zine on networking
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) explained by Julia Evans
• MDN Web Guide: AJAX
• HTTP Basics - This is more detail than you really need right now, but it has some instructive diagrams
• reqres.in API for playing around with different HTTP requests

🦉 Code, Notes & Video

• AJAX notes
• Morning Video

Access Passcode: ?s9^L$iV

Today’s topics

• Using JSON for data
• Basics of HTTP requests
• Make GET requests with Insomnia client
• Make GET requests using the Fetch API and display response data on a page

🎯 Project: Currency Converter

Link to assignment invitation

🔖 Resources

HTTP

• MDN: HTTP Messages

APIs

• Illustrated Dev: Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data
• Insomnia client
• GitHub API Docs

AJAX, Fetch, & JSON

• AJAX explained by analogy
• MDN AJAX
• MDN Fetch API
• MDN fetch() method
• CSS-Tricks article on using Fetch
• MDN Working with JSON

⭐ EXTRA/TMI

Fetch requests use JavaScript promises to handle responses. Promises are a much bigger topic than we will get into right now, but if you want to know more about what a promise is and how to use it beyond the context of AJAX requests, you can start with the MDN documentation about it.

• MDN JS Promise

🦉 Code and Videos

• Morning Video

Access Passcode: fLB2+a42