Compiled Learning Objectives

At the end of the sprint, you should be able to do the following things. Make sure to check you can do them all, and if not, go back and keep practicing until you can.

How the internet works (Prep)

• Describe what happens when a user enters a url into a browser
• Explain the purpose of the HTTP protocol
• Define a GET request in the HTTP protocol

Usability Workshop Pre-reading (Prep)

• Define the term usability.
• Explain each of the 12 usability principles.
• Identify how each usability principle applies to an example website.

Rendering Data as UI (Prep)

• Explain how data is rendered into a user interface

Cinema listings (Prep)

• Define an acceptance criterion for building a web page
• Use a wireframe to make a basic design for the web page

Rendering one card (Prep)

• Define a sub-goal for rendering data in the user interface

Composing elements (Prep)

• Compose UI elements to some specification
• Append DOM elements to other nodes in the DOM tree

Creating elements with functions (Prep)

• Extract functions for common tasks
• Identify benefits of using reusable functions

Creating elements with <template> (Prep)

• Use template tags to simplify element initialisation
• Identify trade-offs between using functions vs template tags to create components

Reusable components (Prep)

• Implement components for a user interface

One-to-one mappings (Prep)

• Describe how to render a list of data

Using map (Prep)

• Describe how to use map

Applying map to our problem (Prep)

• Use map to render multiple film cards

Teamwork Project S1 (Day Plan)

• Discuss hard and soft skills in a tech team
• Describe different roles in tech teams
• Explain the importance of agreeing on clear goals for the team

Usability Workshop (Day Plan)

• Explain how product thinking leads to useful products.
• Apply usability principles in practice by analysing an online product.
• Select and use appropriate UI toolkits for future design work