Backbone.js and Ember

Teacher: Chris Nelson

Picking a client side MVC framework ain't easy, and seeing a trivial todo app just doesn't show what these frameworks bring to the table. For this workshop, we'll be diving in to two popular frameworks, Backbone.js and Ember. We'll devote the day to building an app complex enough to really understand where each framework shines. We'll cover the features of each framework and dig in with code examples and labs that give you a solid understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both. By the end of the day, you should be armed to the teeth with the knowledge you need to pick the best framework for your next rich client web app.

• Cost: $150
• Date:
  WEDNESDAY APRIL 3 (SOLD OUT)
  THURSDAY APRIL 4
• Time: 9AM-4:30PM
• Location: SFSU #664
  835 MARKET ST
  SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103

Functional Programming in JavaScript

Teacher: Brian Lonsdorf

Learn the basics of how to write in the functional paradigm à la haskell as shown here: http://vimeo.com/52111051#at=0. This beginner class will start with a review of the basics and end with you writing code that will resemble any popular functional language (haskell, F#, or erlang, etc.). We assume a basic knowledge of javascript such as the use of callbacks and for loops. While the class is for those new to the functional paradigm, we hope to accommodate experienced veterans with difficult bonus exercises, an open ear to any level question, and to demonstrate just how functional JS can be.

• Referential Transparency and purity
• First class functions
• Higher order functions
• Declarative vs. Imperative
• Recursion/looping patterns
• Type Signatures
• Partial Application
• Composition

After lunch, we'll expand on our compositional style and look closer at the benefits of using category theory to help us build software. We'll examine some hard to solve problems with our current toolset, we'll explore types and typeclasses in depth and develop intuitions on where to use them, then we'll take a look at application design with a functional eye. This class is for people who are comfortable with all the ideas from the first class and want to go way off the deep end. To get a rough idea, the typeclasses section is based on this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/drboolean/monoids-monads-and-make-believe

• Combinators
• Functional Application Design
• Functors
• Applicative Functors
• Monoids
• Monads
• Applying category theory

• Cost: $150 (SOLD OUT)
• Date: WEDNESDAY APRIL 3, 2013
• Time: 9AM-4:30PM
• Location: RACKSPACE
  620 FOLSOM ST SUITE 100
  SAN FRANCISCO, CA

JavaScript: The "What You Need to Know" Parts

Teacher: Kyle Simpson

The majority of JavaScript developers use the language "in practice" (that is, they learn on the job) but rarely go beyond a surface understanding. In this workshop, we're going to actually dive pretty deep into how some of the confusing parts of the language actually work. Especially when we talk about prototypes, we'll see some perhaps surprising conclusions that change the way we think about OO in JavaScript. The goal is that you'll know why JavaScript works the way it does, so that you can make informed decisions about how to use it.

We'll talk about:

• this
• closures
• encapsulation (module pattern)
• prototypes
• common OO patterns in JS
• not inheritance, behavior delegation

And as a bonus, if we have time, we'll dive into async code patterns, including:

• callback styles (continuation passing, etc)
• generators and coroutines (yield, etc)
• promises

• Cost: $150 (SOLD OUT)
• Date: WEDNESDAY APRIL 3, 2013
• Time: 9AM-4PM
• Location: SFSU #675/676
  835 MARKET ST, SUITE 700
  SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103

Teacher: Rick Hurst

This one day class is a “hands on” course for people interesting in developing for the desktop and the mobile web using HTML5.

During the morning we will be covering essential web development skills. Where we also discuss best practices, tooling, and third party resources, cross browser issues, and general hints and tips to make your web development life a lot easier.

In the afternoon we will do a 10,000 ft overview of whats new in HTML5, and do some “hands on development” using some of the most interesting HTML5 device APIs, such as geolocation, canvas, storage and web workers.

This course is not for managers and executives who are looking for an HTML5 overview course.

This hands on development class is specifically targeting people who are looking to either:

• beginners wishing to learn how to develop in HTML5.
• or are intermediate / professional web developers who have not really used HML5 before

During the morning (the essential stuff):

• Markup:
  We will talk about what changed and got dropped from HTML4 and why. Then we will cover all the cool new tags, list datalist, progress, data, video and audio etc, and then will build some basic HTML5 pages.
• Styles:
  We will learn how to find things in the page and manipulate how they look and move. CSS3, keyframe animations, transitions, scaling, shadows, before filters, SVG and all that really fun visual stuff.
• Scripts:
  
  • We have to get a good grasp on JavaScript (and your soon to be best friend jQuery).
  • In order to make our apps do anything useful we need JavaScript, so we will 'attempt' to go from absolute beginner to intermediate JavaScript very quickly in this accelerated scripting section.
  • Without getting a firm grasp on scope, callbacks, name spacing, module patterns, event handling, JSON, and working with object literals etc you are always going to find the HTML5 APIs hella-confusing.

• HTML5 device APIs overview and labs.

Depending upon the speed, 'mood' and consensus of the class we will cover certain APIs in more depth than others. Regardless of which APis we choose to focus on most, we will have plenty of fun labs and you will come away with a knowledge of what HTML5 APIs are available to you and know how to approach working with them. We may even get chance to cover related subjects like responsive design and how to deal with touch events for mobile devices, but that really depends on the pace of the class.

My goal is to get as much info as I can about developing in HTML5 in one day. Big subject, not easy, and we will have to skip some things. This is my 4 day Marakana HTML5 Bootcamp condensed into 1 day!

Again...

This course is not for managers and executives who are looking for an HTML5 overview course.

This hands on development class is specifically targeting people who are looking to either:

• beginners wishing to learn how to develop in HTML5.
• or are intermediate / professional web developers who have not really used HML5 before

• Cost: $150
• Date:
  WEDNESDAY APRIL 3, 2013 (SOLD OUT)
  THURSDAY APRIL 4, 2013
• Time: 9AM-4PM
• Location: Marakana
  301 Howard St
  San Francisco, CA