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When you start working with WebPack for GameTime, you'll notice that you can't just define a variable in one file and find it in another as easily as you can in Rails.

Read Node.js, Require and Exports and Organize Your Code with RequireJS

Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

• In the context of Node, what is a module?
• The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?

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Overview & General Resources

• 9 Things Every Beginner Should Know
• A React Playground in JSFiddle
• All of the Facebook Docs are phenominal. Like, for real, they can always be a source of truth for anything you read in a blog post

React + Ajax

• Docs: React + Ajax
• Official Facebook Tutorial

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First Half

• Ryan Flach, Angela Lindow, Lane Winham - One Fan's Treasure

• Casey Metz and Jeff Duke - Blanched Almonoid

• VOTE Ilana Corson - Turing Arcade

• VOTE Mark Miranda & Josh Washke - the mentorSHIP - Scale Up

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What's this PR do?

Where should the reviewer start?

How should this be manually tested?

Any background context you want to provide?

Screenshots (if appropriate)

What gif best describes this PR or how it makes you feel?

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BoxTrot Group: Working on Backend Rails: https://github.com/LookingForMe/lookingfor

• Erinna Chen - Location normalization stories
• Nick Dorans - Cleaning up records and creating API endpoints
• Heidi Hoopes - DB load testing
• Brennan Holtzclaw - Research spike on elastic search

BoxTrot:Prime: Working on a Clientside Node/React app for backend project: https://github.com/LookingForMe/lookingForFrontEnd

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Cool Things We Did

• Steve Olson: Built a React Native IOS app that displays the currency and expense data generated by his Ramble Map project.

  • repo

• Brant Wellman: De-coupled the basic 3D Engine code of his and Aaron's Gametime project from the actual gameplay code and published it into it's own repo

  • repo
  • blog

• Aaron Greenspan: Built a Phoenix/ReactJS app

rrgayhart

When you start working with WebPack for GameTime, you'll notice that you can't just define a variable in one file and find it in another as easily as you can in Rails.

Read Node.js, Require and Exports and Organize Your Code with RequireJS

Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

• In the context of Node, what is a module?
• The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?

rrgayhart

Step One: Watch Mary Rose Cook Live Codes Space Invaders from Front-Trends. (The second worst conference name ever?)

Step Two: Fork this gist.

Step Three: Respond to this question in your fork: What is one approach you can take from this Mary's code and implement in your project?

Step Four: Totally Optional: take a look at some of the other forks and comment if the spirit moves you.

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Assigned:

• Refactor Tractor (25 points) (Due EOD Monday)
• Creact (30 points) (Due EOD next Friday)
• Complete Week 4 Survey (Due 3pm this Friday)
• Pre Work (approx 1 to 2 hours - not graded) - Depending on Project Selection - More Details Here

Major Lessons:

• Recursion

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Step One: Watch Writing Testable JavaScript - Rebecca Murphey from Full Frontal 2012 (award for worst conference name ever?)

Step Two: Fork this gist.

Step Three: Consider the four responsibilities that Rebecca lists for client side code (hint: they're color coded).

• Did any of the responsibilities that she lists surprise you?
• Do you feel like you mentally split your client side code in IdeaBox and other past projects into these responsibilities?

Step Four: Totally Optional: take a look at some of the other forks and comment if the spirit moves you.