One Hell of a Week

Posted in capacity as Module Leader Group Software Development, Department of Computing Sheffield Hallam University A Morgue One hundred students, 10 clients, 5 labs of University PCs, overzealous Facilities department and the Sheffield weather. What could possibly go wrong? Last week was ‘Scrum Week’. Nineteen groups of students working flat out 9-5, Monday to Friday…

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Strictly Javascript

There comes a time with a large Javascript project where having the code behave more like a ‘usual’ programming language becomes useful.  This is where ‘strict mode’ comes in. Javascript is very forgiving.  Take the following: No problem.  Yet programming from other languages will throw their arms in horror – The Variable has not been…

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How do you function?

Javascript functions can be written in a number of different ways. Function declarations Firstly we have the ‘classic’ named function: This technique is known as a ‘function declaration’. JSFIDDLE Demo Function Expressions Then we have the anonymous function: The above function has no name and is associated with an event. This technique is a type…

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