JavaScripting: Introduction

Programming Courses

This two day Introduction to JavaScripting course is designed to give you the scripting knowledge to add interactivity to your website and to enable you to provide your site?s users with a richer, more responsive experience. This is a practical hands-on course which assumes some knowledge of HTML but no previous programming or JavaScript knowledge

Course Description

Introduction to JavaScript
• Understanding basic programming techniques and terminology
• JavaScript and Java
• Embedding JavaScripts in HTML
• Dealing with non-JavaScript browsers

Basic object oriented concepts
• Objects - properties, methods and events

Browser object models
• The cross-browser JavaScript DOM
• Understanding object properties

Programming essentials
• Local and global variables
• Datatypes and Arrays
• Conditionals and loops

Working with Event handlers
• What are Events?
• Using OnClick
• Using OnMouseOver
• Using OnLoad

JavaScript building blocks
• alert(), confirm(), prompt()
• Creating rollovers
• Detecting browser versions

Form validation
• Validating textbox, select textbox and textarea
• Validating radio box and check box

Manipulating windows
• Creating popup windows
• Resizing windows
• Controlling window content

Understanding String functions
• Using indexof(), CharAT(), Substring(), Split() and Length()

Using Number functions
• Using ParseInt(), ParsefFloat(), IsNan() and Eval()

Error handling
• Try() and Catch()
• Common JavaScript errors

Web 2.0
• HTML DOM
• GetElementbyID
• GetElementbyTagname

JavaScript libraries

Questions and answers