Compiled Learning Objectives

🧮 Ordinal numbers

• Convert positions to ordinal numbers

🖼️ Testing frameworks

• Explain why we need to use testing frameworks

🎒 Starting a project

• Identify a package.json
• Explain the purpose of a package.json

📦 Using packages

• Define a dependency
• Define a package
• Identify some benefits of using a third-party party software library when programming
• Describe why need to use npm when we are building JavaScript applications

🃏 Installing Jest

• Outline the effects of running an installation command, e.g. npm install

🎛️ Application Programming Interface

• Explain why we use APIs in programming
• Identify some commonly used APIs

💼 First test case

• Outline the effect of running npm test
• Interpret documentation to determine how part of a third-party API behaves
• Describe what toBe checks in the Jest library
• State the current return value of a function and the target output for a given test
• Implement a test case to describe the behaviour of a function

✅ ❌ Interpreting feedback

• Identify current output and target output in test feedback
• Determine the line an error occurred from some test feedback

🗄️ Generalising further

• Extend an implementation based on more assertions

Prep - Asking Good Questions

• List a set of good practices when asking and answering good technical questions

Asking good technical questions

• Create well constructed questions that provide helpful answers to technical issues

⌚ Time string 🔗

• Break a down a problem into smaller cases
• Write tests to check logic for smaller cases