Compiled Learning Objectives

At the end of the sprint, you should be able to do the following things. Make sure to check you can do them all, and if not, go back and keep practicing until you can.

Fetching data

• Define a client side Web API
• Define a server side API

Latency

• Define latency

Synchronous execution

• Define asynchrony
• Explain how synchronous execution works

Callbacks

• Define a callback
• Sketch the event loop
• Predict the order of logged numbers using the event loop model

Requesting from a server side API

• Fetch data from a server side API using a client side Web API

Promises

• Define a Promise
• Log a Promise to the console

.then()

• Chain then() on to a Promise

async/await

• Define syntactic sugar
• Write a function using async/await
• Explain what happens when an async function is awaited

Fetch Films

• Apply fetch to get data from an API

Mandatory Sprint 3 Codewars Katas

• Practice applying concepts related to the sprint’s prep material in a kata.
• Problem solve a new coding challenge.

Mentored pair programming

• Talk aloud when thinking about a problem.
• Write code in front of someone else.
• Analyse your strategies for solving problems in code.

Review your peers' LinkedIn profile

• Analyse a profile
• Explain your analysis with actionable insights

Teamwork Project S3

• Identify features for a product
• Write user stories for a product
• Explain the importance of reading and understanding the acceptance criteria