Course Audience:
•Web developers
•Software developers
•Application programmers
•Client/server developers
•Desktop publishers
Skills Taught (Refer to course description for more details).
•JavaScript language essentials, including program flow control, form validation, image animation, frame targeting and cookie creation
•JavaScript code development, including writing programs and writing script for the JavaScript object model
•Web site implementation, including authoring and scripting, Web content creation, Web management and digital media tools
Course Outline:
Part I: Getting Started with JavaScript
Chapter 1. Writing Your First JavaScript Program
Section 1.1. Introducing Programming
Section 1.2. How to Add JavaScript to a Page
Section 1.3. Your First JavaScript Program
Section 1.4. Writing Text on a Web Page
Section 1.5. Attaching an External JavaScript File
Section 1.6. Tracking Down Errors
hapter 2. The Grammar of JavaScript
Section 2.1. Statements
Section 2.2. Commands
Section 2.3. Types of Data
Section 2.4. Variables
Section 2.5. Working with Data Types and Variables
Section 2.6. Tutorial: Using Variables to Create Messages
Section 2.7. Tutorial: Asking for Information
Section 2.8. Arrays
Section 2.9. Tutorial: Writing to a Web Page Using Arrays
Section 2.10. Comments
Chapter 3. Adding Logic and Control to Your Programs
Section 3.1. Making Programs React Intelligently
Section 3.2. Tutorial: Using Conditional Statements
Section 3.3. Handling Repetitive Tasks with Loops
Section 3.4. Functions: Turn Useful Code Into Reusable Commands
Section 3.5. Tutorial: A Simple Quiz
Chapter 4. Working with Words, Numbers, and Dates
Section 4.1. A Quick Object Lesson
Section 4.2. Strings
Section 4.3. Finding Patterns in Strings
Section 4.4. Numbers
Section 4.5. Dates and Times
Section 4.6. Tutorial
Chapter 5. Dynamically Modifying Web Pages
Section 5.1. Modifying Web Pages: An Overview
Section 5.2. Understanding the Document Object Model
Section 5.3. Introducing JavaScript Libraries
Section 5.4. Selecting Page Elements (Revisited)
Section 5.5. Adding Content to a Page
Section 5.6. Setting and Reading Tag Attributes
Section 5.7. Reading, Setting, and Removing HTML Attributes
Section 5.8. Creative Headlines
Section 5.9. Acting on Each Element in a Selection
Section 5.10. Automatic Pull Quotes
Chapter 6. Action/Reaction: Making Pages Come Alive with Events
Section 6.1. What Are Events?
Section 6.2. Using Events with Functions
Section 6.3. Tutorial: Highlighting Table Rows
Section 6.4. More jQuery Event Concepts
Section 6.5. Advanced Event Management
Section 6.6. Tutorial: A One-Page FAQ
Chapter 7. Improving Your Images
Section 7.1. Swapping Images
Section 7.2. Tutorial: Adding Rollover Images
Section 7.3. jQuery Effects
Section 7.4. Tutorial: Photo Gallery with Effects
Section 7.5. Advanced Gallery with jQuery lightBox
Section 7.6. Tutorial: lightBox Photo Gallery
Section 7.7. Animated Slideshows with Cycle
Section 7.8. Tutorial: An Automated Slideshow
Part II: Building Web Page Features
Chapter 8. Improving Navigation
Section 8.1. Some Link Basics
Section 8.2. Opening External Links in a New Window
Section 8.3. Creating New Windows
Section 8.4. Opening Pages in a Window on the Page
Section 8.5. Tutorial: Making Bigger Links
Section 8.6. Animated Navigation Menus
Chapter 9. Enhancing Web Forms
Section 9.1. Understanding Forms
Section 9.2. Adding Smarts to Your Forms
Section 9.3. Tutorial: Basic Form Enhancements
Section 9.4. Form Validation
Section 9.5. Validation Tutorial
Chapter 10. Expanding Your Interface
Section 10.1. Hiding Information with Accordion Panels
Section 10.2. Organizing Information in Tabbed Panels
Section 10.3. Tooltips
Section 10.4. Creating Sortable Tables
Part III: Ajax: Communicating with the Web Server
Chapter 11. Introducing Ajax
Section 11.1. What Is Ajax?
Section 11.2. Ajax: The Basics
Section 11.3. Ajax the jQuery Way
Section 11.4. JSON
Chapter 12. Basic Ajax Programming
Section 12.1. Tabs Plug-in
Section 12.2. Adding Google Maps to Your Site
Part IV: Troubleshooting, Tips, and Tricks
Chapter 13. Troubleshooting and Debugging
Section 13.1. Top JavaScript Programming Mistakes
Section 13.2. Debugging with Firebug
Section 13.3. Debugging Tutorial
Chapter 14. Going Further with JavaScript
Section 14.1. Putting It All Together
Section 14.2. Writing More Efficient JavaScript
Section 14.3. Creating Fast-Loading JavaScript
Part V: Appendix
Appendix A. JavaScript Resources
Section A.1. References
Section A.2. Basic JavaScript
Section A.3. jQuery
Section A.4. The Document Object Model
Section A.5. Ajax
Section A.6. Advanced JavaScript
Section A.7. CSS
Section A.8. JavaScript Software