Compiled Learning Objectives

🏷️ Saving expressions

• Identify the syntactic features of a variable declaration
• Explain why we use variable declarations
• Create strings using variables and template literals

💬 Declarations and statements

• Define a declaration
• Define a statement
• Describe the difference between a declaration and a statement
• Describe the difference between let and const

🪄 Functions

• Define a function in programming
• Evaluate a function expression
• Call a function with an input in REPL

📁 Running scripts

• Execute a JavaScript file with Node

🖨️ Logging

• Use console.log to print a value

❌ Errors

• Identify the cause of syntax errors in small snippets of JavaScript
• Interpret syntax error messages to determine their cause and how to fix them

🧩 Percentages

• Construct simple expressions to represent a calculation

🪄 Declaring functions

• Label and describe the syntactic features of a function declaration

🎮 Playing computer

• Analyse each line in a given program and state what the line does when the program executes
• Differentiate between a function declaration and a function invocation
• Define a frame
• Describe what happens when a function is called
• Differentiate between a local frame and a global frame

🔭 Scope

• Define scope
• Explain what happens when a variable is referenced out of scope

📤 Returning from a function

• Identify the return value at a call site given its function declaration
• Log the return value of a function
• Given a short program, state the number of times a given function is called

♻️ Reusing the function

• Evaluate a function expression
• Call a function with an input in REPL

🏷️ Parameterising a function

• Define a parameter
• Identify the value assigned to a parameter when a function is invoked
• Differentiate between parameters and arguments
• Invoke a given function with an appropriate argument to produce some target output
• Reuse code to perform the same calculation with different inputs

🎡 Morning orientation

• Introduce and welcome new volunteers
• Nominate a timekeeper
• Check the morning day plan and group structures

🧰 Workshop Activity

• Apply concepts from study to a practical example
• Work together on exercises and activities to find gaps in understanding
• Describe and resolve mental model errors

Study Group

• Resolve blockers in your coursework
• Express and resolve problems effectively by writing tickets and asking questions
• Give and receive code review
• Develop your personal portfolio
• Pair programme
• Evaluate your progress with peers and mentors