Improve list of prerequisites

training/front-end/01-modern-javascript.md

@@ -378,8 +378,32 @@ for (const key in { a: "aaa", b: "bbb" }) {
 
 ## Promises
 
+This is only going to be an introduction to the magnificent world of promise.
+
+- Async functions (seen later) use promises as a building block.
+- Promise are indeed async in nature: the calling code continues executing the promise does its thing.
+- Some Web API return promises, including `Fetch`
+
 ### Creating a promise
 
+Note: we use TypeScript in this example, to clarify what's return. You can ignore the type annotations for now.
+
+```typescript
+let isDone: boolean = true
+
+const thePromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+  if (isDone) {
+    resolve("the work is done");
+  } else {
+    reject("this is still pending");
+    }
+    }
+
+console.assert(thePromise === 'the work is done')
+```
+
+TODO
+
 ### Consuming a promise
 
 ### Chaining promises

training/front-end/README.md

@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ I am not an expert in front-end development. This should only be considered an i
 
 Assumed knowledge:
 
-- HTTP
+- Basics about HTTP (cookies, protocol, HTTPS)
-- Basics about browser
+- Basics about browser (DOM, using the developer console)
-- Basics about HTML and CSS
+- Basics about HTML and CSS (tags & attributes, how CSS work, CSS selectors, CSS styling)
-- Basics about programming languages
+- Basics about programming languages (conditionals, loops, variables, typing, tests)
+- Basics about JavaScript (syntax, having written a few hundred lines of code)
 
 ## To do before the course
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ Read the [grab/front-end-guide](https://github.com/grab/front-end-guide) to get
 
 1. Modern Javascript
 2. TypeScript
-3. Intro to React
+3. React
 4. CSS/HTML restart
 5. Front-end development practices