Advanced JavaScript

Javascript quick recap

• Variables & functions & loops
• Breaks
• data types
• conditions

Understanding Scope

• Managing globals
• Namespaces
• Closure
• Working with THIS and NEW

Arrays

• Creating arrays
• Deleting array elements
• Multidimensional arrays

Using top level objects

• screen
• window
• location
• history
• cookies
• etc

Working with the DOM

• What is the DOM?
• Working with nodes
• Working with elements
• Accessing DOM elements
  • Changing DOM elements
  • Creating DOM elements
  • The event model
  • event handling
  • dynamic events
  • complex events
• Events and Event listeners
  • Event handling
  • onClick and onLoad
  • onBlur and onFocus
  • Other events

Cookies

• Using cookie objects
• Storing cookies
• Processing cookie values
• Deleting cookies

Validating forms

• Getting and setting information within your forms
• Checking your form data

Understanding Objects

• Object basics
• Object literals
• Object inheritance
• Object methods
• Wrapper objects
• Built-in types
• Custom objects
• Constructors
• Prototype functions

Regular expressions

• What are they
• Using regular expressions
• Alternatives and groups
• string.search()
• string.match()
• string.replace()
• RegExp object
• RegExp.exec()

JSON

• What is JSON
• Objects and JSON
• Creating some data
• Handling data with JSON
• JavaScript and JSON tools

Exceptions

• What are exceptions
• Handling exceptions
• Using exceptions in your code

Libraries

• jquery
• nodes
• backbones
• etc

Debugging

• chrome dev tools
• profiling
• timeline
• annotation
• mobile (usb) debugging

Javascript and mobile

• emulating touch events on the desktop
• testing a touch set of functions
• how to debug your Javascript on a mobile device