Continuing Source Code Study

Spent a few hours over the past couple of days continuing to read through source code (jQuery Todo MVC app).

The time was mostly spent examining the features in app.js.

The Chrome debugger has been a huge help in working through the features and analyzing how different functions and values change in response to different events.

It was mostly a matter of getting familiar with the vocabulary and syntax, logically thinking things through and looking at documentation, so I don't have many notes. But here are some:

MVC: Model-View-Controller

MVC separates the concerns in an application down into three parts:

Models represent the data in an application. Think of things being a type of data you can model - like a User, Photo, or Note.

Views are typically considered the UI in an application (eg. your markup and templates) but don't have to be. They should know about the existence of Models in order to observe them, but don't directly communicate with them.

Controllers handle the input (eg. clicks, user actions) in an application and Views can be considered as handling the output.

Array.filter( [callback function] ) creates a new array with all elements that pass the test implemented by the provided function.

The Call Stack is the list of functions/methods that have been called to get us to the current moment in execution (in a program).

Method chaining is when you call multiple methods on the same object consecutively. In order for method chaining to work, the previous method must return this.

Also got accepted into Lambda School on Wednesday, can't wait for classes to start in April!