Create JS exercise based on name game about teaching-materials

[brendajin]

@pamelafox which workshop should this go in?

[pamelafox]

Hm. I'm not sure if I envisioned it as a standalone exercise for something like a PairUp or as an exercise for JS 101. It's a little advanced for JS 101, it'd involve various string methods. It could be a homework for the faster students. I'd say you can close it or ask folks at the AnnieCannons hackathon to exercise-ify it, your call.

[verythorough]

The techniques required for this are not so different from those in http://www.teaching-materials.org/javascript/exercises/strings.html, which is currently linked in the JS101 index page under lesson 1 (which, as it turns out, is really too early, since students haven't even learned if/else construction yet).

I think this exercise could be a fun addition to the Strings homework, provided we move that homework to a more appropriate spot in the progression, which I think would work OK after Lesson 2.

[pamelafox]

Ah. Bit of history: that strings exercise is based off an exercise from the Google Python class, which teaches concepts in a different order.

I think the Strings exercises might even need to be moved to Lesson 3, because it involves using methods on strings, which is basically treating the strings as each objects. I believe there is a single slide on built-in objects - String, Date, Number, etc, but JS 101 never had time to go deeper into that or do an in-class exercise on it.

So you could put exercises like these as Bonus Homework for Lesson 3 or drop them from 101 entirely?

[brendajin]

I think it would be good to expand on built in methods. The JS 101 was
recently taught in 2 days, so we have a bit more room to expand on some
topics.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 12:48 Pamela Fox [email protected] wrote:

Ah. Bit of history: that strings exercise is based off an exercise from
the Google Python class, which teaches concepts in a different order.

I think the Strings exercises might even need to be moved to Lesson 3,
because it involves using methods on strings, which is basically treating
the strings as each objects. I believe there is a single slide on built-in
objects - String, Date, Number, etc, but JS 101 never had time to go deeper
into that or do an in-class exercise on it.

So you could put exercises like these as Bonus Homework for Lesson 3 or
drop them from 101 entirely?

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