HTML5DevConf: Jen Kramer, jenkramer.org, Harvard Extension/O'Reilly Media: Sass: The learning bridge
Jen Kramer - Sass: The learning bridge
October 19, 2015 | Room: CJM Goldman Hall
Sass: The learning bridge between HTML/CSS and JavaScript. Many design students new to the programming world enter by learning HTML and CSS. As they make a leap to their first programming language, such as JavaScript, or a library like jQuery, many encounter difficulties, and some drop out of the web world entirely. Teaching resources for JavaScript aren’t necessarily presented with designers in mind — they are created for those who have a programming mindset, or they already know a programming language.
Sass, the CSS preprocessor, features data structures like if/else, loops, variables, and functions. Sass can be written in SCSS format, where the syntax is like CSS, but it must be compiled before sending to the browser. By introducing students to common data structures through Sass, the leap from Sass to JavaScript or jQuery is much smaller and smoother.
In this talk, Jen Kramer proposes a curriculum for easing design students gently into learning JavaScript or jQuery, or any other programming language of interest, by introducing data structures in Sass first.
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