Duration: 3 Days

Description

This 3-day course introduces participants to the core concepts of JavaScript for front-end web development. It covers language fundamentals, event handling, forms, DOM manipulation, and debugging. Learners will also explore modern JavaScript features like arrow functions, destructuring, and array methods. Through hands-on practice and a capstone project, attendees will gain practical skills to build dynamic, interactive web pages using JavaScript.

Audience

This course is designed for aspiring front-end developers, designers, or QA professionals looking to add JavaScript to their skill set. It’s ideal for those with basic knowledge of HTML and CSS who want to start programming client-side functionality. No prior JavaScript experience is required, making it suitable for beginners transitioning into web development.

Objectives

  • Write and debug JavaScript code using modern syntax
  • Use variables, functions, loops, and conditionals to control program logic
  • Create and manipulate JavaScript objects and arrays
  • Handle user events and validate form inputs
  • Access and modify the DOM dynamically
  • User regular expressions for basic pattern matching
  • Understand scoping, closures, and modern ES6+ features

Prerequisites

Participants should have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, including how to structure a web page and apply styles. Comfort with using a text editor and web browser developer tools is expected. No prior programming experience is necessary, though familiarity with general computing concepts will be helpful.

Course Outline

Module 1: Language Fundamentals

  • Introduction
  • Basic Syntax and Data Types
  • Expressions, Operators, and Variables
  • Deployment
  • Conditional Statements
  • Bitwise Operators, Arrays, and Loops

Module 2: JavaScript Objects

  • Objects
  • Checking Type

Module 3: Functions

  • Separating Presentation and Code
  • Defining Functions
  • Handling Exceptions

Module 4: Debugging

  • Developer Tools

Module 5: Forms

  • Identifying Form Elements
  • Responding to Events

Module 6: Advanced Event Handling

  • Event Handlers
  • Attaching Events and the Event Bubble
  • Combining Events and CSS

Module 7: DOM Element Management

  • DOM Elements
  • Elements and CSS Classes

Module 8: Regular Expressions

  • Defining Regular Expressions
  • RegExp and String

Module 9: Scope and Closures

  • Global vs. Local Scope
  • Function Scope, Hoisting
  • Closures

Module 10: Modern JavaScript (ES6+)

  • let, const, and Scoping
  • Arrow Functions
  • Template Literals
  • Destructuring, Spread, Rest
  • Default Parameters

Module 11: Arrays and Objects in Practice

  • .map(), .filter(), .reduce()
  • Nested Data and JSON