Programming with JavaScript

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to create a script as a sequence of steps, executable by the computer, to achieve a stated goal.
Students will encapsulate code in functions, modeling steps in a process.
Students will apply new techniques to existing code, increasing code clarity, without losing any functionality.

Class Agenda

Review of previous class
- Share your learning
Programming - Input/Process/Output
- Robot Exercise
- Discussion Reading
Demo With JavaScript Functions
- Lab: Refactoring

New Vocabulary

Script
Programmatic problem solving
Expression
Operator
Function
- Declaration
- Call
- Parameters
- Arguments
- Return value
Refactoring