nTier Training’s JavaScript Training Course teaches JavaScript using a unique, classroom-tested learning path that contains hundreds of small, easy-to-understand examples to demonstrate the full range of JavaScript’s power. One step at a time, this course guides new JavaScript programmers through every essential technique, from script setup to advanced DOM and CSS programming.
Course Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:
There are no required prerequisites, but knowledge of HTML is helpful.
Course Objectives:
- Data types, literals and variables
- Operators, control structures and functions
- Building dialog boxes and working with JavaScript objects using the Browser object
- Navigator, windows frames dynamic images and links
- Event handling, regular expressions and form validation
- The JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Dynamic HTML
Course Outline:
- Introduction to JavaScript
- What JavaScript Is and What JavaScript Is Not
- What JavaScript Is Used For
- JavaScript and Events
- What Versions? What Browsers?
- Where to Put JavaScript
- JavaScript and Old or Disabled Browsers
- JavaScript from External Files
- Script Setup
- The HTML Document and JavaScript
- Generating HTML and Printing Output
- About Debugging
- The Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, and Variables
- Variables
- Bugs to Watch For
- Exercises
- Dialog Boxes
- Interacting with the User Exercises
- Operators
- About JavaScript Operators and Expressions
- Types of Operators Number, String, or Boolean?
- Datatype Conversion
- Special Operators
- Control Structures, Blocks, and Compound Statements
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Functions
- What Is a Function?
- Debugging
- Objects
- What Are Objects?
- User-Defined Objects
- Manipulating Objects
- JavaScript Core Objects
- What Are Core Objects?
- Array Objects
- Array Properties and Methods
- The Date Object
- The Math Object
- What Is a Wrapper Object?
- The Browser Objects: Navigator, Windows, and Frames
- JavaScript and the Browser Object Model
- The Document Objects: Forms, Images, and Links
- The Document Object Model
- Introduction to Forms
- Introduction to Images
- Introduction to Links
- Handling Events
- Introduction to Event Handlers
- Event Handlers as JavaScript Methods
- Handling a Window or Frame Event
- Handling Mouse Events
- Handling Link Events
- Handling a Form Event
- Handling Key Events: onKeyPress, onKeyDown, and onKeyUp
- Handling Error Events
- The event Object
- Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching
- What Is a Regular Expression?
- Creating a Regular Expression
- Getting Control–The Metacharacters
- Form Validation with Regular Expressions
- Cookies
- What Are Cookies?
- Creating a Cookie with JavaScript
- Dynamic HTML: Style Sheets, the DOM, and JavaScript
- What Is Dynamic HTML?
- What Is a Style Sheet?
- Types of Style Sheets
- Where Does JavaScript Fit In?
- JavaScript Web Resources
- HTML Documents: A Basic Introduction
- Intro to the Intro
- What Is HTML? HTML Tags
- The Minimal HTML Document
- Character Formatting
- Linking
- Adding Comments
- Case Sensitivity
- Graphics and Images
- Troubleshooting
- Metatags, Cascading Style Sheets, and Java
- Looking Behind the Scenes, or; What Did We Do Before the Right-Click?
- What About Frames?
- CGI and Perl: They Hyper Dynamic Duo
- What Is CGI?
- Internet Communication Between Client and Server
- Creating a Web Page with HTML
- How HTML and CGI Work Together
- Log Files
- Where to Find CGI Applications
- Getting Information Into and Out of the CGI Script
- Processing Forms with CGI
- The CGIpm Module