Specification of the Assignment for the ICT Skills Module

Overview of the modules topics

What is is, what role it plays, why was it built.

A look at at the components of a glitch project. Also types of project will we build?

Place javascript in its proper context, and explore its relationship to the browser.

Explore the javascript variables, including the basic types, conversion and usage

Using const & let. Declaring and using objects.

A concise tour of the structure of variables & objects in Javascript

A concise look at methods & Arrays

Creating, accessing, adding to and removing from arrays.

Exploring length, slice, concat, join, indexOf, lastIndexOf

Using for, while and do-while to iterate over an array

Arrays of more complex data structures, including nested objects.

A detailed walkthtough of the Solution to the PlayGymWeb assignment

Structure of a web app: Front-end Vs Backend. Routers, Models, Views, Controllers

Views: Handlebars layouts, partials and templates

The backend will use a modular approach, relying on specific mechanism to import/export shared objects

Server, routes + controllers

Templates enable dynamic composition of views from layouts, partials and expressions.

JSON is notation for representing javascript objects in a simple literal format.

Review thee dashboard controller in detail.

Revise the Dashboard to render playlist without their contents. Use a new playlist view renders individual playlists

Explore the MVC Pattern in action in Playlist 2

How to remove a song from the playlist

How a form UI is laid out in HTML using Semntic UI

How to accept user input from a form and process it in a controller

Common techniques for implementing sessions.

Refactor the application to support sessions

New forms needed to enable the user to signup / login

The API to create, access and destroy sessions.