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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 26 - Data Structures

Choose whether a given object is a Data Structure (DS) or an Abstract Data Type (ADT):

	DS	ADT	Can be implemented using...	Features include...
Contiguous Array	✔️		n/a	Uninterrupted space in memory (RAM)
Stack		✔️	arrays, linked lists	Linear, LIFO, top reference, push, pop, peek, isEmpty, size
Queue		✔️	arrays, linked lists	Linear, FIFO, head/front and tail/back references, enqueue/add/enter, dequeue/remove/leave, peek, isEmpty, size
List		✔️	arrays, linked lists	Linear, "flexible" arrays, get/find, insert/add, remove/delete, isEmpty, size
Tree		✔️	arrays, linked trees	Non-linear, level, depth, height, root, leaf, parent, left-child, right-child, subtree, traversals (see final two exit ticket question below)

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Exit Ticket: Day 18 - React Router

You should be able to:

• Use the URL bar to manage state and control navigation within a SPA using the react-router-dom library
• Set up HashRouter/BrowserRouter in a parents component to handle routing
• Swap views using Route components
• Navigate to specific routes using Link components

Which is NOT a main component we import from react-router-dom?