Javascript Intro

What Will I Learn?

•  Terminology and user interaction

•  Variables and Operators

•  Objects and Conditionals

•  Built-in and custom functions

•  Loops and Arrays

•  Free digital course assets

•  Free post-course helpdesk support

Day one

Getting Started

• Overview

• About terminology

• Embedding Scripts

• Syntax and Comments

• Testing via alert and console

• Hello World

• Basic user interaction

Variables

• Concept

• Global variables

• Declare, initialise and test

• Write values to and within the page

• Data types

Operators

• Assignment

• Comparison/Inequality

• Increment/Decrement

• Concatenation

• Logical AND

Objects

• About OBJECTS

• DOM basics

• Methods and Properties

• Creating a Date object

• Waiting for page load

• Assigning user events

Conditionals

• Syntax and structure

• Boolean logic

• IF, ELSE IF and ELSE statements

• Nested conditionals

• Responding to conditions

Built-In Functions

Such As:

• getElementById

• prompt

• confirm

• Running code at intervals with set Timeout

Day two

Custom Functions

• Syntax

• Build a function

• Local Variables

• Returning values

Loops

• FOR loop concept and syntax

• While loop

• do /while loop

• Applied loops

Arrays

• Concept and syntax

• Populating an array

• Looping through an Array

• Sorting an Array

Random

• Using MATH round, random, ceil and floor

• Produce random numbers within a range

• Select randomly from an Array

Conclusion

• Recap

• What's next

• Top Javascript Libraries