New API Lessons, Tic-Tac-Toe Updates, Confluence 2024 Highlights, and Welcoming New Learners

November 4th - November 15th

Let us look at what we worked on in BigBinary Academy from 4th November 2024 to 15th November 2024.

JavaScript Course Update

Based on the feedback from learners in our workshop, we identified common blind spots when working with APIs, ranging from a general understanding of APIs to handling `response.json()` and managing errors. To address these gaps, we have added three new lessons and improved two existing ones in the API chapter.

Here are the newly added lessons:

• API Examples

• Fetch Response Body

• Error Handling in Fetch

In addition, we have improved the challenges to make them more engaging and reflective of real-world scenarios.

Test your skills with these updated challenges here.

• Bored API

• Guess the Country from Currency

Project Update

We also improved our Tic-Tac-Toe Website project by breaking down tasks into smaller, more detailed steps, making it easier for learners to focus on each part as they work through the project. We have also improved the images linked to each task in the challenge to make them more visually appealing.

Check out the project here.

Confluence 2024 - Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology

We attended the “Future of Education” roundtable discussion held as part of Confluence 2024 at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology. Academicians from institutions like IIT Madras, CUSAT, MACE, MITS, and RSET, along with professionals from industries such as IBM, EY, NEST, and Unique World Robotics participated in the event. The discussion provided valuable insights, and we had the opportunity to share our initiatives to teach coding better through BigBinary Academy. We look forward to expanding BigBinary Academy’s reach to more learners through the partnerships established during the event.

New Batch Update

We have added a new batch of students from MGM College of Engineering, Nanded. We had around 62 submissions in the NeetoForm. We will conduct an initial qualifier soon and look forward to kicking off a new batch.

Student Highlight

Aparna H, a final-year Computer Science student at NIT Calicut, has been consistently working through BigBinary Academy daily for nearly six months, and we are happy to have her with us.

She has completed the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript courses and recently finished the Project Assessment.

Be sure to check out the News Explorer Project she built as part of the JavaScript course at BigBinary Academy!

If you want to build the same project, here is a step-by-step explanation.

Community Feedback

Saurabh Pawar highlighted a bug in a challenge where the correct/incorrect message was not displayed. We have fixed the issue. Check out the updated challenge here. Bharat also pointed out a broken image in another challenge, which has now been resolved. You can view the updated challenge here.