Apr 01: JavaScript Promises

Learning Objectives

After today's class, you should be able to:

• Describe how Promises help manage asynchronous operations.
• Create a Promise to run a long-running function asynchronously.
• Generate a bar chart visualizing a given dataset using Plotly.js.

Lesson Outline

Part 1 [25 min]

• Promise – MDN Reference
• 27_Textbook_Promises.pdf – by Connolly and Hoar
• 28_Promises-Primes.pdf – by Kirkpatrick

Activity [20 min]

• Live Editor – Javascript 16 - Promises.pdf
  • live16.html   live16a.js   live16b.js   live16c.js  

Part 2 [30 min]

• 29_Textbook_Plotly.pdf – by Connolly and Hoar
  • chapter10.15.html   chapter10.15.js   sample-portfolio.json  
• Plotly.js Basic Charts