Module: Javascript 1

This in-class WOD will assess your ability to write a simple Javascript program.

Discussion:

• Most DNF’s were due to small errors in reading the assignment. Don’t worry if you DNF’d: there’s plenty more WODs to come!

This assessment will evaluate your ability to write a high quality technical essay summarizing what you learned about Javascript, athletic software engineering, and JSFiddle.

Discussion:

• Overall, all of the submitted essays were acceptable. That’s great!

• As expected, many of you are still learning what it means to “write for the world, not the professor”. Many of the essays assume the reader knows about “the assignment”, or what a “WOD” is. Furthermore, some of the essays simply recount what the author did without motivating why the reader might want to know those facts. Assume that a reader from Ohio has googled, say, “hawaii javascript” and clicked on the link to directly retrieve your essay. Would your essay make sense to someone not from the University of Hawaii and not already in ICS 314? For an example of a 314 essay written “for the world”, check out Spending an hour coding FizzBuzz by David Aghalarpour from last year.

• Tip: on first reference to CodeAcademy’s Javascript track, or athletic software engineering, or WOD, provide a link that the reader can use to obtain more details.

• Several essays contained significant grammatical errors. You can often fix these by simply doing a second pass over the document after a couple of hours, this time focusing just on cleaning up the writing.