async-programming.md

Asynchronous Programming

This lesson will teach you about programming in an asynchronous environment and the pitfalls of this

Event loop review

• Review concept of event loop call stack

Callbacks

• Examples of mousedown/click/touch
• Handling the context of the event in the callback

Error handling

• try/catch/finally
• callback( happy, err );

Handling async data (nesting functions)

• ajax example