What I Did

1. Paired with Nate do discuss CK integration setup issues.
2. Attended Nerd Talk
3. Continued digging through switch-cms - I’m feeling pretty close to being able to create my first component…

What I Learned

1. JQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across various browsers.
2. Component specifications
   • Component Classes
   • getInitialState
   • getDefaultProps()
   • propTypes
   • mixins
3. Life-cycle Methods
   • componentWillMount()
   • componentDidMount()
   • componentWillReceiveProps()
   • shouldComponentUpdate()
   • componentWillUpdate()
   • componentDidUpdate()
   • componentWillUnmount()
4. Prototype-based programming is a style of object oriented programming in which behavior reuse is performed via a process of reusing existing objects via delegation that serve as prototypes. Delegation is the language feature that supports prototype-based programming.
5. Opaque data structures do not have a concrete data structure defined in their interface - enforces information hiding because an opaque data structure’s values can only be manipulated by calling subroutines that have access to the missing information.
6. A proxy server or application level gateway is a computer that acts as a gateway between local network and a large scale network like the Internet to increase performance and security.
7. A CDN (content delivery network) is a globally distributed network of proxy servers deployed in multiple data centers allowing for high availability of content and high performance.
8. map(), reduce(), and filter() among other functional programming oriented methods currently defined in JavaScript allow for code to be more easily communicated and reduce the need to track side effects.

What I Still Don’t Understand

As like yesterday, I think I’m beginning to develop a system for tackling new technical challenges. Rather than simply following a tutorial and calling it a day for creating a new app, I realize that to understand and manipulate existing technology that is foreign to you, here’s what I currently got to do -

1. Properly define and soak in the task at hand.
2. Go through a fundamentals tutorial introducing you to said technology.
3. Go through all relevant code within a given repository that you need to manipulate and search through docs to understand all of the moving pieces - though this is tedious at first, it certainly pays off later on.
4. Attempt to apply learning to manipulating the code to your needs and expand from there for developing other apps from scratch.