Javascript Hack Night
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This month we’re featuring a special version of the JS Hack Night! We’re going to look at ways to introduce techniques from the functional programming world into javascript. We’ve got some great projects lined up for you on Om (https://github.com/swannodette/om), Elm (http://elm-lang.org/), Angular (http://angularjs.org/) and Underscore (http://underscorejs.org/).
Note: make sure you arrive by 6:30! Doors open at 6pm. If you arrive late you’ll be assigned to the group with the smallest number of attendees, which probably means you’ll spend the night programming interfaces in Haskell. If that thought makes you squeamish or you don’t know what that means then don’t be late!
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Regular meetup description:
Hack nights are a time to slough off your workaday shackles and stretch the limits of what you can do in javascript. It's a chance to experiment with new tools and techniques, learn new paradigms and practices, commiserate and collaborate with fellow devs and make interesting things.
We work in small, self-assembled groups and we'll share our results at the end of the night.
It's important to have project ideas ahead of time, so please do the following:
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subscribe to js weekly (http://javascriptweekly.com/)
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pick something interesting
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post a comment about it here
Examples of interesting projects:
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try a framework: noflo, meteor, ~todomvc, etc
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try a library: q, allong.es, bilby, lemonad, etc
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try a language: fay, elm, roy, clojurescript, flapjax, etc
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try some web apis: audio, webgl, svg, webrtc, etc
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go parallel: workers, river trail, webcl, etc
We are beginner friendly. Here's some resources for getting up to speed with javascript:
Eloquent JS (http://eloquentjavascript.net/)
Effective JS (http://effectivejs.com/)
JS Allonge (https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge)
Fun JS (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do)
Another great way to learn JS is by reading the source of good libraries -- underscore.js (http://underscorejs.org/) is a solid starting point.
Javascript Hack Night