Javascript Programming Essentials

Duration: 5 days

Learn to use Javascript to develop dynamic web applications.

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Course Description

The emphasis in this course is on the use of Javascript to develop dynamic web applications.

Who Needs to Attend:

The course is aimed at those who have little programming experience and who will be adding dynamic content to web pages by incorporating Javascript code.

Prerequisites:

The course does not require much programming experience, and can, in fact, serve as a good first course in programming.

Course Content:

Background, uses and history of Javascript

• Versions of JavaScript
• Client side JavaScript – Executable content in Web Pages
• JavaScript security
• Server side JavaScript

• numbers, strings and other data types
• variables – typing and declaration
• operators
  • arithmetic operators
  • equality operators
  • relational operators
  • string operators
  • logical operators
  • assignment operators
• statements
• functions
• choice and selection using
  • if else
  • switch
• iteration using
  • while and do while
  • for and for in
• functions
  • defining and invoking
  • passing arguments

• Objects
  • constructors
  • methods
  • prototypes and inheritance
• arrays
  • array methods
• objects as associative arrays
• regular expressions
  • string pattern matching

• embedding JavaScript in HTML
• how JavaScript embedded in HTML runs
• using Java script with windows and frames
• the Document object and web documents
• the Form object and building web forms with embedded JavaScript
• Cookies and cookie handling via JavaScript
• DOM – the Document Object Model
  • DOM and IE4, IE5
  • DOM and Netscape
  • Cascading style sheets and Dynamic HTML
  • Event handling and DOM Level 2
  • Internet Explorer Event model
  • Netscape Event model
  • JavaScript security