Agile JavaScript - a codecentric AG workshop

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Slides

Introduction

Who we are, what we do and what the workshop is about
Frameworks, Tools and Services

Short overview and explanation of the frameworks, tools and services, that we use during the workshop. Start here, if you want to know, how a typical tool stack for agile software development with JavaScript can look like.
JavaScript Basics

Introduction to JavaScript, basic features and common pitfalls. Start here, if you are new to JavaScript or want to learn more about the language of the workshop.
AngularJS Basics

The workshop's tasks focus on AngularJS basics in the beginning. These slides will get you up to speed in no time.
About the Movie Database

Presentation of the demo-project that is used throughout the workshop.

Source Code

All the project's sources are available through a GitHub repository under codecentric/movie-database-node. Workshop participants will be given a fork of this repository with pull and push rights.

Preparation

Please form teams of four to five persons (four persons preferred).
Make sure that every one of you has created a GitHub account. Creating an account is easy and free of charge. You can create an account through the GitHub homepage.
Once you have formed teams and every team member has created a GitHub account, please inform us about your teams. Send us one message per team to agilejs@codecentric.de containing the names of all the persons that are part of your team, the GitHub user names of all team members and, if you are up to it, a fancy team name!
Follow the installation instructions below when you find some spare time (you should have done this before the workshop!). Every team member needs a complete development environment.

Installation of necessary software

The necessary software is listed on our Installation Guide.

Workshop Material

So now you have installed all necessary software, you have cloned the movie-database repository and you want to start hacking! Here are some information, you might find useful.

Quickstart Guide

The fastest way to get you working on the movie-database. Explanation of the most important grunt-task grunt dev and more.

Tasks and User Stories

The tasks for the workshop. Starting from some easy ones to make you familiar with AngularJS and NodeJS, up to completely new features like Twitter integration.

Documentation

Documentation of the movie-database internals, configuration, available grunt-tasks.

Useful Links

A list of links to tutorials and reference documentation of the frameworks used in the movie-database project.