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Welcome to the Kinu course on web development! Our project for this introductory class is to build a working job postings board, with an emphasis on student jobs.

The entire website will be built as a one-page web app using Backbone/Marionette for the front-end and CouchDB for the database and API server. These are some of the hottest web development technologies around. If you continue in this course then you will become an expert JavaScript programmer.

Technologies

Utility Libraries

• jQuery: DOM and AJAX toolkit
• Underscore: functional programming extensions
• Require: module loader

Front-end Architecture

• Backbone: MVC framework and event aggregation
• Marionette: extensions to Backbone

Database

• CouchDB: NoSQL document store

Guides

• Set up a reverse proxy for CouchDB

Design

• Intro to design
• Kazifasta user flow

Resources & Tools

Books

• Thinking Like a Designer by Sacha Greif
• Design is a Job - A Book Apart
• Designing for Emotion - A Book Apart

Articles

• Smashing Magazine - Industry leading resource for design and coding
• Front End Standards - article about being a web developer

Wireframing

• Balsamiq Mockups
• Moqups

Homework

• Homework 01: Due 2012/10/29
• Homework 02: Due 2012/10/31
• Homework 03: Due 2012/11/05
• Homework 04: Due 2012/11/12
• Homework 05: Due 2012/11/14