NOTE: This is a working draft. Please pull request changes. The outline is 
particularly weak near the end.

• While people are arriving: install Node.js

• Introduction to the command line on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux

• Introduction to writing JavaScript

  • Variables
  • Native types
  • Operators
  • Flow control structures (if & else, while, for, for... in)
  • Advanced control structures (switch, ternary operator)

• Entering the REPL with the node command

• Execuing code files with node

• Recitation: Simple programming project to demonstrate skills taught

• Hand out Saturday's schedule

Bring a laptop, lunch will be provided.

• Brief history of JavaScript

• Writing intermediate JavaScript

  • Functions
  • Variable scoping and closures

• Events

  • Callbacks
  • EventEmitters

• Concurrency

• Reading and writing the console

• Recitation: Capturing keyboard input

  • Events: process.stdin.on('data', function () {});
  • Concurrency: setTimeout(function () {});

• require()ing packages

• Reading and writing files with the fs package

• Reading a from the web with the http package

• Recitation: Downloading a file

  • Uses http to fetch a file
  • .on('data', function () {}); uses fs

• Hosting a web service with http

• Simplifying web hosting with express

• Recitation: Create a web server

• Main track splits into a number of breakout topics:

  • Deploying (the app just written) to Heroku
  • Writing proper JavaScript
  • And some other ones that you should think of