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#C5T9GPWFL I mentioned a user study where I got a bunch of participants by embedding it within an intro to Node.js class. I rummaged around in my filesystem and found the original instructional materials for nostalgia's sake.
Bits are funny in hindsight, like, "_Node.js is minimalistic. Node.js programmers tend to make libraries that you can plug into your project, rather than frameworks that you're supposed to plug your project into._" And stuff that was intended to be funny at the time, like, "_[Redis is] 'schema-less', which means that your schema is defined in comments littered throughout your code, instead of in the database._"
But mostly, I'm just floored by how much effort I put in, like writing code examples where nearly every token has contextual explanation in styled hover-text, and taking incredible care to copy relevant reference information onto every page.
So I thought I'd drop a link here for fun:
https://github.com/alltom/node-course It's a series of static HTML files you're meant to open from your filesystem, but you can also just type the names after
http://alltom.github.io/node-course/ The Theseus intro starts at
http://alltom.github.io/node-course/public/tutorial-05.html I particularly like step 12.