Be sure to check materials for week 0 first.

To have a good idea about higher order functions & how to use map & filter in JavaScript, cover these two chapters from the book:

• http://eloquentjavascript.net/03_functions.html
• http://eloquentjavascript.net/04_data.html
• http://eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html

To avoid headaches from writing custom CSS, we are going to use Bootstrap.

Here are few very useful tools for Bootstrap:

• Bootstrap button generator
• Bootstrap form builder
• Bootstrap layout builder

• Here is a good introduction to HTML 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOHh0uzcuY - covering the stuff we are going to use.

• The difference between var f = function() {} and function f() {} is explained very well here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/336859/var-functionname-function-vs-function-functionname

• A very good reference about the DOM can be found here - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM
• A short read about JavaScript and the DOM API - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/JavaScript_technologies_overview

We are going to use jQuery for our DOM manipulations.

There is no better way to start with jQuery than this - http://try.jquery.com/

The first topic is fast so try to cover the 12 videos from "Introduction to jQuery"