It really depends what direction you want to send them in. Yes, TCP chat is pretty meh. I mean, it was CRAZY AWESOME example material 3 years ago, but Node kind of made it seem trivial :)
Websites are cool if you think it's a thing that they're going to be interested in doing. But rather than just crank out an Express site to show how easy it is (which won't teach them much except "Express is easy"), why not do something more interesting, like a chat example that uses Browserify and client-side Node modules? Or, maybe check out voxeljs.org and show them how they can use these tools to create multi-user Minecraft-ish environments in a web browser. You could write a program that interacts with Tropo or something, and sends SMS messages. Connect it to the facebook API, and get alerts every time something happens. You can do a lot with Node. "Network programs" usually involves some kind of web component, but the network goes a lot of places :) On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I'll be making a hands on with a class of 40 studends, their level of > experience is unknown, I'm assuming that they know something about > programming. > > I have three hours to try to convert them to the dark side and give them a > pleasant experience with Node.js. We will be using Win7 machines without any > compiler, unfortunatelly I couldn't choose the OS :-( > > I'm thinking in a lineup like this: > > - Basic Node.js introduction > - Installing Node.js > - The REPL (everyone writing a simple code and try to debug with > console.log) > - Async programming and callbacks (again everyone writes simple exemples > with the timeouts and intervals) > - Introdution to NPM (everyone writes their own package.json) > - Introduction to the fs module (examples with txts dumping and REPL) > - Introduction to the net module (everyone writing the basic hello world > with the http interface) > - Basic web server with some routes and .html dumping from the fs (everyone > writing again) > > I think it's missing the end, something that they would say "I can't believe > that I made this by my own and it's so awesome!" > > Some TCP chat maybe? I would write the server and everyone will write the > client. But chat? If you type Node.js on Google the 10000 first things that > comes out are chat examples, it's kinda boring. > > What you think? Any ideas? :-) > > -- > Att, > Alan Hoffmeister > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
