Many things are happening at once to the monks of Tech Elevator and we must react to each the best we can.
Two matchmaking events will happen next week–one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. Tuesday will be a mix of companies and Wednesday will be only Dick’s Sporting Goods, here to interview all who are interested. There’s a ton of preparation that goes into handling this event. We have to prepare ourselves for the behavioral questions by coming up with examples of our good work habits from years past. We have to bone up on our vocabulary and technical processes to deal with the programming questions that might get thrown our way. We have to research each company so that we can ask sensible and pertinent questions of our interviewers. And we have to quell the anxiety-monster raging in each of us, disrupting our sleep and making our voices timid and shaky when speaking with strangers.
Oh, and there’s still class too. Still three-hour lectures and accompanying homework to contend with. And it’s important stuff. If you want to sell yourself as full stack, you better know your JavaScript.
Today we covered Event Handling with JavaScript. Much like TE students must prepare for the upcoming blitzkrieg of interviews, a web page must deal with the nonstop events that occur in their domains. Each click, each highlight, each move of the mouse can change what is happening on a web page. Tom taught us how to do this today, setting surprises all across our HTML, like booby traps in the forest, waiting for users to scroll across them.
It was fun. It’s my favorite part of JavaScript so far. And it feels good to keep adding to the rubber band ball of knowledge I’m building, band by band, to bounce during the upcoming matchmaking events.
From Retail to Programming 