Unless they come from specifically a web development background, how about highlighting Node's ability to interface with real world devices. Getting it done on each students machine might be difficult but you could always carry along a RPi to show it interfacing with maybe an Xbee... turning on LED's based on ambient light or something... or just using the RPi's GPIO turn on/off LED's
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Tim Oxley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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? 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