I'm eating my own dog food with the codepen.io, doing some of the most basic pens, based on Youtubes, some of which are quite good. Making a green box slide back and forth with some button interaction, is all doable in this interesting environment.
My two students will get some overview about how it all fits together. Here's what I have in Movement:
Yes, JavaScript (ES, JS), a moving target of a language. A front line. I'm impressed by the many troopers who march into Angular, React and all that. The tutorials look fun. Yet I'm still busy boning up on Python. JS is back burner for me, so not the front end developer in that sense.
"Eating my own dogfood" is a geek expression which, loosely translated, means walking one's talk. If I'm out there talking code schools, Silk Road or otherwise, I need to be putting in my hours, though not completely at the expense of exercise. I did make it up Mt. Tabor today. Rain was threatening, so I had my hat. David DiNucci (computer scientist) happened to be walking in the same direction and joined us.
Melody was by today, in part to return Naga, the stuffed snake Steve Holden brought into circulation around the time toy animal mascots were seen as cool, a sign of not taking ourselves too seriously. Perl started it with the Camel, and then O'Reilly gave us the animal books.