Create Advanced Javascript Module (Backend)

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Context

We have proposed to implement advanced Javascript as two separate modules:

• /courses/Frontend/advanced-javascript
• /courses/Backend/advanced-javascript

The learning goals will be mostly identical for both of them, but the examples and exercises will be tailored to frontend or backend respectively.

You can see the current state of the program on our website here (which is a gitbook render of this program repo linked above).

Description

This task's goal is to create and finalise the backend version of the Advanced JavaScript module.

Requirements

• Learning goals and overall content can be copied from /courses/Frontend/advanced-javascript
• All code examples and assignments should run using node.js with very minimal/no html/css (this is a backend course, and basic html/css was covered in the foundation course)
• async examples should represent tasks a backend developer might encounter. It could be calling another API via fetch, reading/writing from files, or have data processing.
• Creating a functional API will first be taught in node.js module which comes after this one. For this one, consider how the trainees can easiest run their code. i.e. command line.
• All sessions should have assignments too. We may later introduce a multiple-week project to run over this module, but we should still have independent assignments created for this module in the meantime.

Tasks

• Copy the content from /courses/Frontend/advanced-javascript
• Adjust session plans
• Adjust preparations
• Adjust assignments
• Tweak and collect general feedback on the content, which we may also want integrate on the frontend version too.