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* Download and run/install a copy of node.js. A local copy of the standalone 32-bit windows executable [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2013w/node.exe here]. Other versions are [http://nodejs.org/download/ here]. | * Download and run/install a copy of node.js. A local copy of the standalone 32-bit windows executable [http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/webfund-2013w/node.exe here]. Other versions are [http://nodejs.org/download/ here]. | ||
* Run the node.js hello world program as shown in the "Basic HTTP server" in the [http://www.nodebeginner.org/#a-basic-http-server Node Beginner Book]. | * Run the node.js hello world program as shown in the "Basic HTTP server" in the [http://www.nodebeginner.org/#a-basic-http-server Node Beginner Book]. | ||
==Hints== | |||
* If you just run the node.exe executable by double-clicking on it, you'll get a ">" prompt. This is the node read/eval/print loop. Meaning, you type in JavaScript to it. | |||
* If you want to run a file with javascript in it in node, start up a command prompt, cd to the directory containing node.exe and your file foo.js, and then run "node foo.js". | |||
Revision as of 16:08, 11 January 2013
Your first set of tasks are the following:
- Setup an account on Piazza.
- Setup an account on github.
- Validate your student email with github to get a free student account: https://github.com/edu
- Setup an account on the class wiki (optional).
- Tell the TA your current ideas on your term project and who you would like to work with.
- If you do not have a partner, post a blurb on Piazza to help find one, or reply to an existing solicitation.
- Download and run/install a copy of node.js. A local copy of the standalone 32-bit windows executable here. Other versions are here.
- Run the node.js hello world program as shown in the "Basic HTTP server" in the Node Beginner Book.
Hints
- If you just run the node.exe executable by double-clicking on it, you'll get a ">" prompt. This is the node read/eval/print loop. Meaning, you type in JavaScript to it.
- If you want to run a file with javascript in it in node, start up a command prompt, cd to the directory containing node.exe and your file foo.js, and then run "node foo.js".