JavaScript Essentials Programming

Course details

Participants are taught basic principles of User Interaction and Form validation and then taken on a journey of JavaScript syntax.

Once they are familiar with the syntax and programming, they are given many real life case studies to do in class, to comprehend how to implement the important skills they have learnt.

Every web developer is expected to know JavaScript in today's time, but more than 50% of developers have no idea about this and this impacts their job and growth in one way or the other.

Who Should Take This Course:

JavaScript is the defacto tool used to code front end client side scripts to provide simple things like User Interaction, Form Validation and the like.

It is a must for Front end developers, since a large part of their role involves creating fantastic user interaction and validation of different elements to a large scale.

It is also the obvious tool to provide the speed of interaction that can't be expected from a backend programming language or approach.

Course Content For JavaScript Essentials Course

Module 1 - Introduction to Client-Side JavaScript

• Embedding JavaScript in an XHTML Document
• Evolution of the JavaScript Language
• JavaScript Versions and Browser Support
• Statements and Operators
• Variable Declarations?
• Assignment Operators and Statements
• Arithmetic Operators
• Logical Operators
• Comparison Operators
• String Operators?
• 5 Conditional Operators
• Operator Precedence

Module 2 - DOM/CSS Scripting

• Introduction to the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Using the getElementById() method
• Modifying Page Content using DOM
• Implementing Functions
• Defining Functions
• Invoking Functions
• Named and Anonymous Functions
• Passing Arguments
• Local vs. Global Variables
• Using the return Statement layer
• The 'this' Keyword

Module 3 - Implementing Control Constructs

• Introduction to Conditional and Looping Constructs
• The 'if-else' Statement
• The 'do-while' Statement
• The 'for' Statement
• The 'switch' Statement

Module 4 - JavaScript Objects

• The JavaScript Browser Object Model
• JavaScript Object Properties
• Object Methods
• Creating New Object Instances Using Constructors
• String, Date and Array Objects
• Including JavaScript in a Page
• Form Validation and Testing
• Working with Regular Expressions
• User Interaction
• Local Form Processing