Class 11 Prep

Before coming to Class 11, please complete the following tasks:

HTTP, Callbacks and Promises

Done Task Resource Type Link Time Estimate Instructions
Read Interactive Book EloquentJS 17: HTTP 4 hours Revisit your old friend, Eloquent Javascript. This chapter begins by talking about the historical evolution of the relationship between Javascript and HTTP. He then goes on to discuss how AJAX requests with callbacks can start to get very hairy when you want to chain multiple requests together, one after the next. We will see run into this "callback hell" in the upcoming studio... get excited! He also briefly introduces a newish technology called Promises, which seems like a very promising (pun intended) way of overcoming this complexity. We won't go into Promises in this course, but it is something useful to be aware of and possibly learn more on your own later.