Tutorials

Git and GitHub

Our learning plan is here: http://github.com/geocam/geocamDeveloperGuide/tree/master/git.rst

Django

Read the intro and follow the tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/

HTML Reference

One of the best HTML and CSS references available is the Mozilla Developers Network

Javascript

MDN has a nice, concise overview of the language: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript

If you're accustomed to object oriented languages with class-based inheritence, you might find this discussion of Javascript's prototype-based inheritence helpful: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Introduction_to_Object-Oriented_JavaScript

If you're interested in deeper understanding, Douglas Crockford's talks are highly recommended, as is his book.

jQuery

• The offical docs are very good.
• Here's a tutorial with a general overview of the features: http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
• A great book on the subject is JQuery in Action, which has a particularly good section on the event model Jquery uses (which abstracts away some of the browser-specific quirks in event dispatch).

Google Maps API

The docs for version 3 of the Maps API live here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/

KML is the XML schema used for through out Google's Map and Earth products for specifying geographic data. The schema has excellect documentation that you should become familiar with.

Backbone.js

• Backbone.js website has good documentation and many examples.
• Note: underscore.js is required for backbone.js to work.
• The actual backbone.js has really good documentation and code examples included with it.
• Backbone Fundementals is a book on backbone.js that is pretty nice.

Ember.js

• Note: As of latest, development has switched from ember.js to backbone.js
• Ember Homepage has getting-started text, guides, and auto-generated d0cs.

• Recommended reading order:

  • Intro docs
  • MVC Guide
  • Routing Guide
  • The View Layer

• Understanding Ember.Object explains concisely how to use Ember's instantiation and inheritence mechanisms. Highly recommended quick read.
• Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js provides the best explaination of how to build a basic Ember app I've found so far.
• ember-data's readme is a pretty good run-down of how to use the persistance layer
• An alternative tour of the full stack that I found very helpful.
• Tom Dale on debugging Ember [video] offers a peak into the internals and developers' intent.

Open questions:

• How should controllers be organized?
• Support for nested JSON models in ember-data?