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Exit Ticket: Day 27 - Algorithm Analysis, Sorting

You should be able to:

• Articulate the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic
• Explain Big O in terms of both time and space (when/how is it useful, what does it measure, etc.)
• Describe how both Bubble Sort and Merge Sort operate, as well as discuss their time/space complexities

In your own words, what is Big O measuring?

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Exit Ticket: Day 1 - Pairing and Git

You should be able to:

• Practice effective pair programming
• Manage a project using git

Which git command adds files to the staging area?

	Option	Explanation

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Exit Ticket: Day 4 - DOM Events, Pixelate

You should be able to:

• Set up event listeners to handle DOM events
• Explain the concepts of event delegation, event bubbling, and event delegation
• Be able to stop an event from bubbling

In JavaScript, what can you attach to your elements to deal with events?

• Event Listeners

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Exit Ticket: Day 8 - Node-Postgres pg, Express Routing, RESTful API

You should be able to:

• Describe the role of pg in our stack
• Define REST and its advantages
• Create and mount Express Routers
• Explain the role of body parsing middleware

What role does node-postgres (pg) assume when communicating with Postgres?

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Exit Ticket: Day 12 - React

You should be able to:

• Write a class or functional component in React
• Pass, receive, and render props in a React component
• Hook into React lifecycle events (e.g. componentDidMount)
• Define and update state in a component
• Handle state changes in response to AJAX, user events, etc.
• Render lists of data in JSX

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Exit Ticket: Day 2 - HTML, CSS, Flexbox

You should be able to:

• Create a basic HTML document using common elements (div, p, h1, ul, button, etc)
• Add some basic styling to an HTML document
• Navigate the browser developer tools (console, elements, network)
• Style a page using Flexbox
• Leverage media queries to make a webpage responsive

In your own words, what is Semantic HTML and why should you use it?

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Exit Ticket: Day 5 - Node

You should be able to:

• Explain the purpose of Node
• Use module.exports and require to create modular applications
• Describe what npm is and its purpose
• Explain asynchronicity in JavaScript (its "non-blocking" nature)

In your own words, what is Node? And why do we need it?

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Exit Ticket: Day 17 - connect, Thunks, combineReducers

You should be able to:

• Use connect from react-redux to connect a React component to the Redux store, including defining appropriate mapStateToProps and mapDispatchToProps
• Use thunks to perform AJAX requests with a React/Redux application
• Use combineReducers to split your reducer function into separate functions, each managing independent slices of your store's state

connect modifies the original component.

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Exit Ticket: Day 26 - Abstract Data Types and Data Structures (Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees)

You should be able to:

• Define and distinguish Abstract Data Types (ADT) and Data Structures (DS)
• Describe how both a stack and a queue work (how are they different, what similarities do they have, etc)
• Implement a Linked List and Binary Search Tree (BST) class
• Explain the high-level differences between depth-first and breadth-first search
• Explain the differences between pre-order, in-order, and post-order processing

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Exit Ticket: Day 3 - Debugging, DOM

You should be able to:

• Be able to identify common ways to debug software and procedures to prevent bugs
• Define the DOM
• Manipulate the DOM using the DOM API
• Explain how a browser uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to display a web page