Slides from the presentation by Rossen Zhivkov on JS Next Sofia conference.

1. JS Skills: From
Novice to Guru
The “how-to” algorithm

2. “Give a man a fish, and he will
eat for a day. Teach a man to
fish, and he will eat for a
lifetime”
“Confucius”

3. The algorithm
Develop a skill =“consistent
directed efforts towards the
goal”
Goal = master the skill
Consistent = discipline
Directed = map + mentor

4. The map of a JS Wizard
Process
/applying the techniques/
Techniques Quality

5. Boxing vs. JavaScript

6. I. Techniques

7. JS Map – Part 1
HTML/CSS/JS
basics
jQuery
(DOM, Events)
AJAX, JSON,
cookies,
caching
Server side
integration
jQuery UI jQuery Plugins
SVG & Canvas
Graphics
Grids
Charts
Knockout
SPA Framework
(Angular etc.)
jQuery
Animation
Html templates

8. JS Map – Part 2
jQuery
(DOM, Events)
Responsive
Design
PhonegapjQuery Mobile
Data-driven
Forms
Form Validation Generic Forms

9. II. Quality
Strength Endurance

10. JS Strength – Handle
complexity
 Software engineering principles – OOP,
Separation of Concerns, Reusable
Components, DRY, KISS, YAGNI
 OOP in JS - prototypes, modules, revealing
modules, multi-instances, namespaces
 Promises – solving the “callback hell”
 Troubleshooting & debugging
 MV* Frameworks
 Angular
 Knockout
 Backbone
 Others and your own

11. JS Endurance
 Unbreakable code
 Logging & instrumentation
 Unit testing and automated UI testing
 Source analysis – use strict, JSHint
 Performance - Minification, Gzip, Profiling,
YSlow

12. III. Process skills
Prepare Execute Report
Task Definition Problem Solving
Mentoring
Architecture

13. Software Development Process

14. 1. Architecture

15. 2. Task Definition

16. 3. Execution

17. 4. Mentoring

18. The map of a JS Wizard

19. Now what
 Build a map / get the map
 Email to Jivko@abilitics.com to get ours
 Assess yourself
 Create a PDP Personal Development Plan
 Find a mentor
 Join our Boxing club in February, 2015
 Join our “Life couching through dancing” club
 https://www.facebook.com/kizomba.maniacs
 Week: Tuesday and Thursday, 21:30 in Students Town
 Weekends: Sunday, 6 pm to 8 pm in Paradise Mall, Dance
station

20. Life couching in Kizomba Maniacs
https://www.facebook.com/kizomba.maniacs