Agree with Isaac, get them excited with the stuff they can't easily build with Rails or PHP, like interfacing with hardware or real-time browser stuff or mad-science "look mum, all my processes are talking to each other real easy!" stuff.
I'd have it cooked up substack-style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQAV3bPOYHo) for fast pacing, but also pre-written so they can follow-up while there and / or after the class. Also, downloadable working code samples. -- Pedro On Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Arunoda Susiripala wrote: > supervisor is good. > But I think debugging is not fit into a 3 hours session. (Specially they have > 0 knowledge on node) > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Fernando Trasvina <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > include supervisor and debugging from chrome > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> 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 (http://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] (mailto:[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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