weekly_summary_first_week_js.md

Weekly summary first week js

• installing node, basics of javascript
• this document outlines the basics of javascript, variables, types, control flow
• the basics of javascript are extremely similar to ruby
• callbacks
• remember a callback function is a function passed into another function as an argument, which is then invoked inside the outer function to complete some kind of routine or action

arr.forEach(/* this is the start of callback*/function(element) {
    console.log(element)
}/*this is the end of the callback*/)

• all of my callbacks notes
• then moved on to browser javascript
• using method calls like querySelector, addEventListener, createElement, classList.add, classList.toggle
• linking js file to html
• experimenting with console
• browser javascript notes from the day
• great resource for looking at all the event listeners that exist
• todolist challenge, main new things introduced were appendChild and getting value from a forms input input.value