JavaScript Programming Fundamentals

JavaScript is an scripting language with similarity to Java, used to add client-side dynamics to Web pages or develop desktop and mobile applications. With JavaScript, developers can manipulate objects within the browser, validate HTML Form content, save state with Cookies and access and manipulate XML data.

Target Audience:
Web and mobile developers with prior experience in using HTML to developing Websites. This course is also useful for application developers planning to use the browser as an engine for deploying platform-independent GUI applications. The skills gained in this course also apply to the mobile platforms.

Recommended Prerequisites:

• Intended for an IT audience

• Experience with low-level HTML5 coding

• Experience in using a text editor

Course Objectives:
After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe the role of JavaScript in Web publishing

• Describe basic JavaScript data structures

• Describe JavaScript operators and expressions

• Describe objects, methods and properties as applicable to JavaScript

• Describe the JavaScript Document Object Model

• Describe and use JavaScript events and functions

• Use cookies to �remember� user actions and choices

• Author a number of different processing scripts

• Describe the usage of JavaScript libraries

Key Topics:

• History of JavaScript

• Client/Server Overview and scripting

• How to code and debug JavaScript applications

• HTML5 and CSS crash course

• Objects, Methods and Properties

• JavaScript language syntax

• Data types and variables

• Understanding events and event handlers

• Operators and Expressions

• Controlling Program Flow

• Functions and Events

• Using Cookies

• Document Object Model (DOM)

• Dynamic HTML, Style and Content

• XML, AJAX and JavaScript