Major Activities of the Day: Today we started JavaScript! To make things simpler, Avi had us all go through the CodeSchool JavaScript Roadtrip videos. In the afternoon, we had a lecture about jQuery and Ajax.
That's what (almost) everyone else did. I had the good fortune of having done the CodeSchool course before, and I spent the weekend studying jQuery and Ajax with the CodeSchool courses. So I spent most of the day working on my project, actually implementing jQuery stuff. So there are lots of event listeners, a getJSON call to retrieve data stored on the server based on a user selection, etc. It was a pain to deal with a new language and framework when I'm still struggling somewhat with Rails, but the effects were incredibly pretty, and at the end of the day, I'm proud of what I managed so far.
Skills developed: jQuery, Ajax
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