1. Talk about

• What is backbone
• MVC for client side JS. Bit different than the normal MVC pattern
• what are the core classes
• Any dependancies
• underscore, something to do Ajax
• Some history
• Who made it
• Is it gaining traction
• Where is it being used

2. Get set up

• Download the framework from Github: git@github.com:dtuite/backbone-todo.git
• install node - Macports, homebrew
• install express with npm (within the framework directory)
• start server (within framework dir)
• open: framework/public/js/script.js

3. Make a model

• What can we do with it?
• show the get, set and has methods
• show how we can set defaults

4. Make a view for that model

• root element, class
• the template: property. Show how we can use this
• the initialize function, what it does
• the render method, what it does
• show in the console how we can render a view in the dom

5. Make a collection

• start the server and fetch from it
• show how we have retreived the data from the server

6. Write a view for the collection

• give it a root element directly from the DOM
• give it an initialize function and a render finction
• in render, iterate through the models in the collection, give them each a view, and call render on each one

7. Bootstrap

8. Bind an event callback to one of the models

• add the callback in initialize
• change the model data in the console and see the view update

9. ???

10. profit