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# mk-planning-20220822-mdf-coding-session

MDF session on databases and coding.

[thoughts](#Thoughts-on-the-Session)

Things
- timeline.js
- maps and mapping
- infographics
- dataVis
- integration with creative apps
- react
- html and css
- maybe js within airtable
- database normalization
- data models
- for things in your field
- what are some good datasets?
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## structure

- html
- css
- react and components
- js basics
- variables
- strings
- arrays
- objects
- functions
- APIs
- input and interaction?

## Thoughts on the Session

- all of these apps involve a database backend and an interactive front-end (think YouTube or Pinterest or Spotify)
- and your teaching kindof does this too
- there's a collection of stuff you analyze (texts, materials, animals, events, people)
- and each of these has a bunch of properties
- and many of the various objects in your collections will relate to each other somehow
- and then you come up with
- interesting relationships between these objects
- novel arguments or observations about their properties
- argue about the effects the objects or properties have
- detect patterns, etc
- and in teaching
- you give students views of objects in these collections (rarely if EVERY giving them access to ALL of the objects in a given collection)