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Study Group Goal - Javascript Basic Badge


The goal of this study group is to prepare participants for the Javascript Basic badge offered by Mozilla and School of Webcraft.

Please review the badge information. Is this an appropriate goal? Is it too difficult or should the scope of this group be enlarged?

Task Discussion


  • Parag   May 3, 2011, 8:21 a.m.

    This challenge does a good job of testing a participant's skills at manipulating the DOM, but this challenge does not have any activities on testing knowledge of basic Javascript concepts.  We probably need to include challenges which can exercise the following knowledge:

    1. understanding of functions and closures
    2. understanding of the concept of scope
    3. global namespace
    4. object inheritance
    5. object properties, and object prototype
  • Anonym   May 11, 2011, 4:29 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Parag   May 3, 2011, 8:21 a.m.

    I completely agree with Adaptives on this.  An Intro to Javascript study group should cover basic DOM, but Adaptive's presented goals touches on many subjects that help a person better understand both the Javascript language itself and then how this knowledge can be used to develop richer and more complex apps.