JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript?
Jan 31, 2020
58:50
It’s a new year which means companies are hiring and developers are interviewing. So we thought it would be fun to host a fun game of technical Jeopardy.
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Featuring:
- Jake Dohm – GitHub, X
- Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Here are some of the topics we covered which might be useful to know in a technical interview! You should never have to define any of these things but knowing their concepts and how they work will help you land a job!
CSS
- Flexbox Froggy
- Flexbox Defense
- Polypane App
- Media queries
- Keyframes
- Specificity
- Selectors
- Pseudo classes / elements
- Pre-processors
- Combinators
HTML
- Aside
- DOCTYPE
- Meta tag
- iFrame
- Canvas
The Web
- HTTPS
- Cache
- Cookies
- TCP/IP
JavaScript
- Const, let, var
- Scope / hoisting
- Undefined, null
- Protoypes / the prototype chain
- Promises
- Higher-order functions
- Callback functions
- Closures
- Map
- Set
- Event bubbling / delegation
- Functional programming
- Strict mode
- Prevent default
- Type of / instance of
Miscellaneous
- Stack overflow
- WAI-ARIA & accessibility
- XSS attacks / security breaches
- SEO
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