Topics Covered

• Duration: 80 minutes

• Learning Objectives:

  • Master asynchronous programming concepts in JavaScript.

  • Learn about callbacks, promises, and async/await.

• Outline:

  1. Introduction to asynchronous programming.

  2. Using callbacks for handling asynchronous tasks.

  3. Problems with callbacks (callback hell).

  4. Promises: structure, chaining, and error handling.

  5. Using async/await for cleaner asynchronous code​​.

• Student Activity:

  • Implement a simple callback function for reading a file.

  • Convert the callback-based function into a promise-based function.

• Homework Assignment:

  • Write a Node.js script using async/await to fetch data from a public API and log the results.

  • Identify and handle potential errors in your script.