Thermostat

The logic needed to model a simple thermostat, written in JavaScript.

Version 1 folder: it contains the program I wrote during the Makers Academy course. Version 2 folder: work in progress. I am re-writing the original Thermostat program to practise javaScript, version contol, Jasmine, as well as to improve the code of the first version.

Specifications

• Thermostat starts at 20 degrees
• You can increase the temperature with an up function
• You can decrease the temperature with a down function
• The minimum temperature is 10 degrees
• If power saving mode is on, the maximum temperature is 25 degrees
• If power saving mode is off, the maximum temperature is 32 degrees
• Power saving mode is on by default
• You can reset the temperature to 20 with a reset function
• You can ask about the thermostat's current energy usage: < 18 is low-usage, < 25 is medium-usage, anything else is high-usage.
• (In the challenges where we add an interface, low-usage will be indicated with green, medium-usage indicated with black, high-usage indicated with red.)

Learning Objectives covered

• Using Jasmine to Test-Drive Development of a thermostat
• Linking logic to a dynamic visual interface using jQuery, HTML and CSS
• Using JavaScript to fetch data from external sources and displaying that on the page, getting the weather information for different cities from a weather API

Test coverage

Screenshot of user interface