Programming with Javascript

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From the simplest webpage to complex Enterprise scale web applications Javascript is an essential skill for any developer or designer.

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  • IT
  • Javascript
  • Javascript training
  • Programming

Course programme

Introduction to Javascript

  • What is Javascript
  • How to place script in a web page

Types

  • Understanding Javascript types
  • Learning to check for type
  • Defending against Type mutation

Flow of Control

  • If statements
  • Loops
  • Switch statements

Functions, Arrays and Objects

  • Arrays
  • What are Arrays
  • Creating Arrays
  • Accessing Arrays
  • Functions
  • What are functions
  • Creating functions
  • Calling functions
  • Functions and scope
  • Objects
  • Creating Objects
  • Accessing Objects

Error Handling and Debugging

  • Understanding the Error Object
  • The Inbuilt Error types
  • Creating resilient code using try/catch statements
  • Throwing Errors
  • In Browser Debugging
  • Firebug for Firefox
  • Dragonfly for Opera
  • Developer Tools for IE
  • Developer Tools for Safari
  • Developer Tools for Chrome
  • Console Debugging
  • Logging to the console
  • Breakpoints

The DOM

  • Why the DOM
  • Using the DOM
  • Selecting elements
  • CSS3 Selector patterns
  • Generating new content

CSS

  • Understanding the Style Object
  • Manipulating appearance with selectors
  • Positioning
  • Reading and setting CSS properties
  • CSS Classes and Javascript
  • The calculated style of an Object
  • Adding and removing classes

The Browser Object Model

  • What is the BOM
  • Cross-browser issues
  • The 'core' BOM
  • The Window Object
  • Global scope variables
  • Other BOM objects
  • The Location Object
  • The History Object
  • Document methods
  • Cookies
  • The Screen Object
  • The viewport
  • Window Objects

Event Handling

  • Understanding Javascript events
  • Subscription models
  • Inline
  • Programmatic
  • Event listeners
  • Event bubbling and capturing
  • The Event Object
  • The 'this' keyword
  • Legacy browsers

Forms and Regular Expressions

  • Understanding forms
  • What are forms
  • HTML hierarchy
  • Selecting form elements
  • Accessing form elements
  • Form events
  • Control events
  • Regular expressions
  • What is RegEx
  • Using RegEx to analyse data
  • HTML5 forms

Timers and Asynchronous programing

  • What are timers
  • Introduction to threading
  • Timer types
  • setInterval
  • setTimeout
  • Common timer issues
  • Scope
  • Latency
  • Workload

Functions and Closures

  • Advanced function design
  • Closures
  • What are closures and how do they work?
  • Using closures to simplify development
  • Parameters
  • Self-executing functions
  • Strict mode

Object Orientated Javascript

  • Objects revisited
  • Creating your own objects
  • Constructors
  • Prototypes
  • Chaining Objects
  • Overloading and overriding
  • With statements
  • Sealing Objects

JSON and AJAX

  • The need for AJAX
  • JSON, XML and CSV
  • Encoding into JSON
  • Using AJAX
  • Deserializing JSON
  • Creating client side data structures

Cross Browser Development

  • The cross browsers issue
  • The terrifying and horrific nature of cross browser development
  • Choosing what browsers to support
  • Browser grading
  • Progressive enhancement
  • Browser vs. feature detection
  • Why never to use browser detection
  • Conditional scripts in IE
  • Writing cross browser defensive code
  • Handling legacy addEvent patterns in IE

Modular design, minification and Obfuscation

  • Building better code with lint
  • Optimising for deployment:
  • Amalgamating
  • Minification
  • Deflating

Introducing jQuery

  • What is jQuery?
  • Selecting elements with jQuery
  • Manipulating properties with jQuery
  • Events with jQuery

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