If they are beginners, what's wrong with "express is easy"? On Thursday, 11 April 2013 13:51:09 UTC-4, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> 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]<javascript:> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > >
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