Teaching sessions

Teaching sessions will be geared towards those who would like to learn more about Node.js and focus on installing some of the tools as well as basic concepts. We will explain some of the tools we will be using in our hacking sessions and going over some of the projects and ideas we would all like to work on.

Topics covered with be dependent upon the class, but will generally cover the following:

• Node.js and what can it be used for
• The node.js core functionality
• socket.io -https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io
• Express.js - https://github.com/visionmedia/express
• Request - https://github.com/mikeal/request
• Underscore.js - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
• Promised.io - https://github.com/kriszyp/promised-io
• Optimist - https://github.com/substack/node-optimist
• node_redis - https://github.com/mranney/node_redis
• Basic structures
• go over some of the example projects we've been working on so far
• Resources for learning good practices in javascript