Ben (Binyamin) Pester

As promised, in class today we will wrap up our class work on Project 2.  See the “PROJECT INFORMATION” tab for the latest, final project document with instructions.
-Shafer
NOTES!
select history.*, eventname, […]

Hello all,
I’ll start class today with a couple remarks about exam 1.  Then we will move on into today’s material.  Today’s material is about numbers. math and strings in JavaScript.
I cover those topics not o […]

Welcome back!
In class today I will start class with a few quick remarks about exam 1, and then I will pick up where we left off before break (in the NoSQL material)
See you in class!
-Shafer
 
 

Hi all,
Big announcement!  I have decided to move exam one from Thursday (this week) to Tuesday 3/21 (this coming week.)
I will spend Tuesday’s class doing exam prep work – specifically looking at the study gu […]

Hi all,
Big announcement!  I have decided to move exam one from Wednesday (this week) to Monday 3/20 (this coming week.)
I will spend today doing exam prep work – specifically looking at the study guide, […]

In class today I will begin covering our next major topic – NoSQL.
I will begin presenting the NoSQL lecture material and demonstrate the installation of the MongoDB Compass software that we will need.
I will […]

Hi everyone,
In class today we will work on the history feature of our Project 2 application.
We will use this as an opportunity to introduce something called “template literals” (also sometimes called “template […]

Hi everyone,
In class today we will work on the history feature of our Project 2 application.
We will use this as an opportunity to introduce something called “template literals” (also sometimes called “template […]

Hi everyone,
I’ll start class with a couple remarks about last week’s quiz, as well as this week’s upcoming quiz.
After that, we will spend our class time doing two things:
#1 Working on Project 2 – client […]

Hi everyone,
In class today, I plan to do some exam prep.  That will involve:

Reviewing the study guide
Looking at alternate solutions to two past assignments
Beginning work on a new assignment

Also, […]

Hi everyone,
I’ll start class with a couple remarks about last week’s quiz, as well as this week’s upcoming quiz.
After that, we will spend our class time doing two things:
#1 Working on Project 2 – client side […]

In today’s class we are preparing for Monday’s exam.  We will look at the study guide and a recent assignment.
-Shafer

I’ll start class today with “the lamppost joke” and how it relates to you.
Then we will begin to integrate the camera functionality into our prototype. I hope to get as far as dealing with scan succe […]

A police officer sees a drunken man intently searching the ground near a lamppost and asks him “What are you doing?”. The drunk replies “I lost my car keys. I’m looking for my car keys.”
So… the police offi […]

Hello all,
So far this semester we have been learning about the essential elements needed to do any sort of meaningful programming: functions, conditional statements, loops.
If those essentials are strong and […]

I want to take a moment to promote this new, student led, organization.

If you are at all interested in the Blockchain club, I suggest you join the GroupMe and follow the club’s Instagram (both linked in the p […]

I will start class today with some announcements about the homework assignment due tonight.
I’ll dedicate some class time to answering questions about the assignment.  (Mostly covering questions that came up […]

I’ll start class today with “the lamppost joke” and how it relates to you.  
Then we will begin to integrate the camera functionality into our prototype.  I hope to get as far as dealing with scan su […]

A police officer sees a drunken man intently searching the ground near a lamppost and asks him “What are you doing?”. The drunk replies “I lost my car keys. I’m looking for my car keys.”
So… the police officer […]

Hello everyone,
Today we are going to revisit the topic of debugging / troubleshooting.
We will work on an exercise in class and there will be some work for you to do outside of class. ( See the class schedule […]