Compiled Learning Objectives

🕹️ Using an interface

• Categorise different interfaces

🖥️ Terminal interface

• Identify the terminal and its purpose
• Execute commands in the terminal

🗄️ Classifying data

• Define data type, expression, and operator

🧾 Evaluating expressions

• Define the features of the Node REPL
• Evaluate expressions using your mental model of JavaScript
• Evaluate expressions using the Node REPL

🏷️ Saving expressions

• Identify the syntactic features of a variable declaration
• Explain why we use variable declarations
• Create strings using variables and template literals

💬 Declarations and statements

• Define a declaration
• Define a statement
• Describe the difference between a declaration and a statement
• Describe the difference between let and const

🪄 Functions

• Define a function in programming
• Evaluate a function expression
• Call a function with an input in REPL

📁 Running scripts

• Execute a JavaScript file with Node

🖨️ Logging

• Use console.log to print a value

❌ Errors

• Identify the cause of syntax errors in small snippets of JavaScript
• Interpret syntax error messages to determine their cause and how to fix them

Prep Critical Thinking

• By the end of this preparation trainees will be able to explain critical thinking.

Study Group

• Resolve blockers in your coursework
• Express and resolve problems effectively by writing tickets and asking questions
• Give and receive code review
• Develop your personal portfolio
• Pair programme
• Evaluate your progress with peers and mentors