Application Design (Meteor), Part 3

Learning Outcomes

Design using Meteor Framework

You understand basic principles of Meteor: reactive variables, collections, publications, helpers, templates.
You can develop basic CRUD applications quickly and effectively.
You can implement authentication and authorization.
You can use extensions and templates: AutoForm, Twitter Bootstrap, Iron Router, meteor-application-template.

Competent with elementary Javascript

You can create local and global functions, and manipulate objects and arrays.
You can pass functions as parameters, and create anonymous functions.
You can use the Underscore Javascript library to simplify manipulation of data structures.

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

You understand the motivation for version control and configuration management
You can use git commands to support version control.
You can set up a GitHub account and use it to manage files.
You can implement project enhancements by creating and merging branches.

Create high quality technical essays

You demonstrate the ability to write professional-quality technical essays.

Assessments

A24: Assess your ability to use the Meteor Framework.

12 Nov 09:00 AM

Rx: < 15 min Av: 15-20 min Sd: 20-25 min DNF: 25+ min or incorrect

This in-class WOD assessed your ability to build a simple Meteor application.

Discussion:

A few no-shows for class, and a lot of DNFs this week. That said, it’s clear everyone is making huge progress in learning Meteor and integrating all of the software engineering lessons of the semester.

A25: Assess your ability to write about your Meteor experience

12 Nov 09:00 PM

Outcomes assessed: Create high quality technical essays

This assessment will evaluate your ability to write a high quality technical essay summarizing your experience learning about Meteor during the second week.

Discussion:

Overall the essays continued to be good. One of them even included a haiku!

Module: Application Design (Meteor), Part 3

Learning Outcomes

Design using Meteor Framework

Competent with elementary Javascript

Use configuration management tools and techniques effectively

Create high quality technical essays

Readings

Guided tour of the Meteor (Part 3) module

Design and implementation of the Meteor platform

meteor-example-autoform

Autoform Tutorial

Git Merge Example: Collection-1 into Master

Experiential Learning

E53: Digits, Part 1

E54: Digits, Part 2

E55: Digits, Part 3

E56: Reflect on Meteor, again

Assessments

A24: Assess your ability to use the Meteor Framework.

A25: Assess your ability to write about your Meteor experience