JavaScript Essentials with jQuery

About this course

Five days to become genuinely comfortable with JavaScript. You will work with functions, arrays, strings, regular expressions and closures, see how JavaScript's object model differs from classical languages, handle events and control the DOM with jQuery, extend pages with plug-ins and jQuery UI, and exchange JSON with the server through AJAX.

What you'll learn

• Become both familiar with the language and confident enough to work with it in any context
• Learn enough of the DOM API to bend it to your will
• Make communication between the browser and your server possible
• Understand and effectively leverage closures
• Understand how JavaScript's object model differs from the model classical object-oriented programming languages
• Learn what jQuery is and how to add it to your applications
• Use jQuery to select complex sets of elements from the DOM
• Develop rich web pages that respond to user interaction
• Interact with your server-side code using Ajax
• Explore a wide variety of plugins and learn how to write your own
• Test your applications to make sure your JavaScript is as solid as the rest of your code

Curriculum

Who it's for

Web authors who know HTML5 and CSS and want to add interactivity to their pages.

Before you start

• HTML5 - Content Authoring Fundamentals
• HTML5 - Content Authoring with New and Advanced Features