Bonus Topics

Earmarked for Weeks 9 & 10, these can be delivered by pretty much anyone: other TIY instructors, Mason, the TAs, community guests. They're broad topics that can be expounded upon extensively.

Animations

• How do animations work?
• Animations via JavaScript
  • The Problem: JankFree.org
  • window.requestAnimationFrame()
  • window.cancelAnimationFrame()
  • requestAnimationFrame for Smart Animating by Paul Irish
  • Efficient Animations with requestAnimationFrame by Matt West
• Animations via CSS
  • transition | Can I Use?
  • animation | Can I Use?
  • Animate CSS
• Might need some vendor prefixes:
  • autoprefixer
  • -prefix-free

Transpilers

• CoffeeScript is not a Language Worth Learning by Ragan Wild (archived)
• List of Languages that Compile to JS by Jeremy Ashkenas et al (wiki)
• Notable Transpilers
  • CoffeeScript | Literate CoffeeScript
  • TypeScript
  • LiteScript
  • Babel JS (formerly 6to5)
  • Google Traceur
• Mad Experiments
  • Emscripten
  • ClojureScript
  • Google Closure Compiler
  • ASM.js

Documentaion Trumps All

• What is documentation? Why document?
• JSDoc
• Docco
• Literate Programming

Server-Side JavaScript (NodeJS)

• What is Node JS?
• What is "event-driven"...?
• What is "non-blocking I/O"...?
• require()/module/exports
• Express JS / Connect
• Routes & Middleware

Modular JavaScript

• What is a module? Why modularize?
• Require JS & AMD
• Browserify & Watchify
• Duo JS