Javascript Technology 2022
Contents
Announcements - IMPORTANT
- The JavaScript Technology Seminar will NOT be offered anymore after Summer Semester 2023
Instead, the following 2 new Practicums are available on the TUM Matching System:
Praktikum - JavaScript Technology (IN0012, IN2106): More info here
Praktikum - Technical Project Leadership (IN0012, IN2106): More info here
Registration Requirements
No registration possible: see above
Course Overview
Supervisor: Dr. Guy Yachdav
Program Management: Amin Ben Saad, Nikita Charushnikov
What we provide
Hands-on experience in designing and building modern JavaScript-based web applications in an agile development environment together with an industry partner.
Potential Project Partners - Summer 2023
1. Forto ... is a digital freight forwarder & shipping management platform provider.
2. CGI ... is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
3. Salesforce one of the world’s most trusted CRM system providers
4. Mercedes-Benz AG ... one of the most successful and well-known automotive companies
Project Setup: (see pre-meeting slides)
- 9 weeks
- 3 independent projects
- 15-20 students per project
- 3-5 teams per project with 4-6 devs
- 1 project lead and 1 team lead per team
- motivated & experienced students who want to be team leads get a grade bonus of 0.3
Meeting Structure (9 Week Project Period):
- Sprint Meeting (weekly, remotely, 1h) → team-internal information sharing on sprint progress
- Team Lead Meeting (weekly, remotely, 45min) → team leads of a project update each other on their progress & resolve dependencies
- Customer Meeting (bi-weekly, remotely, 30-45min) → regular feedback meeting with your customer
- Design Review (once, in-person, tbd) → mid-term presentation of current web app version
- Client Acceptance Test (once, in-person tbd) → final demo of the project result
Deliverables & Grading: (see pre-meeting slides)
- Web Application (70% of grade)
- Topic Presentation (25% of grade)
- Seminar Paper (5% of grade)
IMPORTANT:
You will be working in teams but the grading will be individualized as much as possible. Effort & good work will be rewarded greatly while laziness won't. We keep open the possibility to exclude extreme cases of lacking effort completely from the seminar.
Important Dates
- Pre-Meeting: February 3rd 2023
- Kick-off Meeting: March 2023
- Design Review: TBA (week 6)
- Client Acceptance Test: TBA (week 9)
- Topic Presentations (in class, participation mandatory): TBA (week 12)
- Seminar Paper Hand-in (online): TBA
more info: [see pre-meeting slides (soon)]
Prerequisites
IMPORTANT: Based on your preferred team (Backend/Frontend/Data) you'll be working with different tools and frameworks. Experience with them is not mandatory yet beneficial.
General: (mandatory)
- Basic familiarity with JavaScript and/or TypeScript
- Knowledge in at least one functional or Object Oriented Programming language
Backend-Team:
- Familiarity with Node, Express or comparable frameworks/libraries
- Experience with Cloud Services, e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, ...
- Experience with relational and NoSQL Databases, e.g. MongoDB
- Bonus: TypeScript, Docker, …
Frontend-Team:
- Familiarity with React, Angular or comparable frameworks/libraries
Data, Visuals, ML, ...:
- Familiarity with D3 or comparable visualisation frameworks/libraries
- Experience (and/or great interest) in handling big amounts of data
- Bonus: Python
Preparation
If you need a crash course in JavaScript we recommend going through this slides deck:
- Language Basics
- Server Side JavaScript
- Data Visualization (starting on slide 14)
- EDx course from the chair
Recommended Literature
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596805531.do
- (Highly recommended:) JavaScript: The Good Parts http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do
- http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/some-javascript-object-prototyping-patterns.html
- http://www.adequatelygood.com/JavaScript-Module-Pattern-In-Depth.html
- http://d3js.org
- http://nodejs.org
- http://jqueryui.com
- http://www.jslint.com/lint.html
- http://jsfiddle.net
- http://www.crockford.com
- http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf
- http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-sentiment-analysis-application-using-node-js/
- Advanced Reading JavaScript Garden - the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language https://github.com/BonsaiDen/JavaScript-Garden/tree/master/doc/en
- RECOMMENDED VIDEO http://www.paulirish.com/2010/10-things-i-learned-from-the-jquery-source/
