What We Learned by Teaching(.js)
summary
A nine‑week, full‑time course teaches 30 students over nine weeks full‑stack Rails and JavaScript from scratch and surfaces concrete wins and failures: students build a WebSockets triage app Hacker Q (WebSockets) reduced instructors' load, a curriculum tracker Curry provides anonymous live feedback, Batman.js powers a single‑page Shopify admin, an embedded app SDK uses postMessage, and a JSON DSL prototype runs merchant discount rules in node sandboxes — most prototypes work well enough to become startups or internal tools.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 2:59thinking about teaching?
- 10:29Embedded App SDK
- 17:24better performance!
- 20:11it lowers the barrier to entry
- 24:40story time
- 25:59github for legal code
- 27:54keep pushing
- 28:23THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE JAVASCRIPT EMPIRE
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