HTML5 Mobile Training Course
Course Summary
The Mobile Web is the Web, and the age of TOUCH is upon us!
If you wish to learn how to build sites that function like native apps when on a mobile device, and yet function as fully fledged websites when viewed on desktops, then this is the course for you.
In the past, people would create websites for the desktop then write code to adjust it slightly so it worked on a mobile device. However the time has now come to consider building your apps for the mobile device first and falling back to the desktop version.
This new paradigm of site building is at the core of this course. The first two days (the HTML5 training course) are to get you up to speed with using HTML5, and the last day is focused on mobile development. We will be covering topics such as touch event handling, and responsive design. We also cover jQuery Mobile so you can get up and running with your mobile prototypes very quickly.
HTML5 Mobile is a comprehensive 3 day course, that is suitable for developers of all levels. Day one tends to be more beginner/best practices focused. Day two is where we really get to roll up our sleeves and wield HTML5. By the end of day 3, it is hoped students have mastered the principles of mobile specific HTML5 development.
[top] Duration
3 days.
HTML5 Mobile is composed of the following:-
HTML5 Essentials Modules
(1 day)
- Intro to Front End Engineering (1 hour)
- Basic Markup (1 hour)
- Basic Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- Basic JavaScript (1 hour)
- Intermediate Markup (1 hour)
- API Overview (1 hour)
-
HTML5 Fast Track Modules
(1 day)
- Intermedia Javascript and jQuery (1 hour)
- Intermediate Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- Advanced Markup and SVG (1 hour)
- Advanced Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- API Code Overview (1 hour)
-
HTML5 Mobile Modules
(2 days)
- jQuery Mobile 1.1.1 (2 hours)
- Responsive Design (2 hours)
- Touch Events (2 hours)
- Forms (2 hours)
- Application Cache (2 hours)
- Single Page Applications (2 hours)
[top] Instructors
Alexis Goldstein is an entrepreneur, a technical author and a teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder and CEO of Aut Faciam, a technical training, consulting and software development company and also the co-author of book "HTML5 & CSS3 in The Real World" by Sitepoint.
On top of that, Alexis is also extremely plugged into the community. She is a proud member of NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, NY, where she learns, builds and teaches, she is a 2011 NextNY Fellow and is also a co-organizer and teacher for Girl Develop It, a group that conducts low-cost programming classes where women can learn in a non-intimidating environment.
Prior to founding aut faciam, Alexis spent seven years working in technology on Wall Street. She worked in both the cash equity and equity derivatives spaces. Her focus ranged from the development of client-facing, realtime cash trading systems to creating proprietary software for equity option pricing and volatility surface modeling. Follow her on Twitter at @alexisgoldstein.
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Maximiliano Firtman is one of the leading experts in mobile and web 2.0 development in the Americas today. From development and private consulting work, to writing books and speaking at conferences, to training some of the most advanced software teams around the globe. Max has been a Nokia Developer Champion since 2006 and Adobe Community Champion since 2011. He is the author of the book Programming the Mobile Web and the upcoming jQuery Mobile: Up & Running, both published by O'Reilly Media. He has also written books in Spanish distributed in Latin America and Spain, such as AJAX, Web 2.0 Para Profesionales. You can follow him on twitter at @firt.
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[top] Outline
HTML5 Essentials Modules (1 day)
Intro to Front End Engineering (1 hour)
- Vision for HTML5
- Mobile web is the web
- How HTML5 integrates with everything
- Front End Engineering is not an island
- Basic Markup
Basic Markup (1 hour)
- What is semantic markup, what we dropped from HTML4 and why
- New Tags in HTML5
- Doctype and charsets
- Essential Meta Information
- Web Developer Tools
- Overview of the DOM
- Putting your first HTML5 webpage online
- Basic Versioning
- Validating your code, and browser issues
- Accessibility
- Basic Selecting and Styling
Basic Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- How to select elements in the DOM with CSS
- How to manipulate the page using the Cascade
- Block and Inline elements
- Floats, positioning, borders, margins, padding and text
- Understanding the viewport
Basic JavaScript (1 hour)
- Variables
- Arrays
- Strings
- Loops
- If/else and equivalence
- Object Literals
- JSON
- Functions
- Scope and Hoisting
Intermediate Markup (1 hour)
- Effective positioning of your scripts
- Good uses of the head tag
- Importing vs linking
- Anchoring
- More Meta Tags
- Inserting Analytics
API Overview (1 hour)
A high level overview (30,000ft) of all the main APIs and related subjects that make up what we know as HTML5 We will be touching on HTML5 subjects from Canvas and the Application Cache, to Touch Events, Messaging API, Responsive Design, Geolocation and Websockets just to name a few.
HTML5 Fast Track Modules (1 day)
HTML5 FastTrack is a one-day course for semi-professional developers or graduates from our HTML5 Essentials.
This module is exclusively offered as a part of HTML5 Course.
Intermedia Javascript and jQuery (1 hour)
- Using web developer tools Tips for using the console
- Deeper into the DOM
- Scope, Private and Public, Callbacks and Nesting, NameSpacing, Using Object Literals, patterns, code execution, and general best practices
- Jquery, and the 20% you will use 80% of the time
- Event Handling and Binding Gotchas
- Intermediate Selecting and Styling
Intermediate Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- Using web developer tools for live styling
- CSS3 selectors
- CSS3 properties
- CSS3 hints and gotchas
- Custom styles and conditional hacks
- The 20% of CSS3 that you will use 80% of the time
- Advanced Markup and SVG
Advanced Markup and SVG (1 hour)
- Even more meta tags
- SEO outlining
- Microformats
- Advanced SVG
- ARIA
- Device listening (@media)
- Working with third party fonts
- Retina versioning
- Advanced Selecting and Styling
Advanced Selecting and Styling (1 hour)
- Gylphs and Font Icons
- Effective use of multiple background images
- Gotchas for nth-of and other static selectors
- Advanced positioning techniques
- Border gotchas, grids, tables, and flex boxes
- EMs vs Pixels (pros and cons)
- Resetting Techniques
- Optimization
- CSS3 Fallback best practices
- Advanced styling with before and after filter injection
- HTML entities
- API Code Overview
API Code Overview (1 hour)
A mid-level overview (500ft) of all the APIs and related subjects that make up what we know as HTML5 We will be covering all the main HTML5 related subjects from Canvas and the Application Cache, to Touch Events Messaging API, Responsive Design, GeoLocation and WebSockets just to name a few This section moves quickly and discusses actual code.
HTML5 Mobile Modules (2 days)
HTML5 Mobile is an advanced two-day course comprising of six carefully chosen mobile-relevant HTML5 Modules. Graduates from this course should be able to build HTML5 projects that target multiple devices and platforms.
jQuery Mobile 1.1.1 (2 hours)
- What is the jQuery Mobile Framework 1.1.1, and why it is not jQuery for Mobile.
- Getting comfortable with data-* in your markup.
- Mobile form helpers.
- Why we break execution order best practices?
- Dealing with the mobile viewport.
- Multiple View Architecture.
- Reaching out to a server (XmlHTTPRequest Level 2 and JSONP).
- Overriding page handling using native jQuery Mobile listeners.
- Themes and rolling your own.
- Rapid Mobile Prototyping.
Responsive Design (2 hours)
- The myth of the one flexible design.
- All mobile views are different.
- Orientation and pixel densities.
- Freeing up some viewport real estate with JavaScript trickery.
- Markup fine tuning.
- Resolution for common devices.
- Detection paradigms.
- Layout grids, pros and cons.
- Dynamic Imagery and Background SVG.
- Pixel Fonts.
Touch Events (2 hours)
- The age of touch.
- How to capture a touch event.
- Multi touch and gestures.
- What happens during a touch event.
- Decoupling the touch and mouse events.
- Mouse and Touch handlers, details and gotchas.
- Mouse Wheels, shift, ctrl and alt keys.
Forms (2 hours)
- New input types.
- New attributes.
- Form validation.
- New CSS form-based selectors.
- FormData Object API.
- Browser support and Fallback.
Application Cache (2 hours)
- Why take your app offline?
- Understanding Caching.
- Manifest and Server Config.
- Effective use of Network, Fallback and Cache.
- Progressive caching and cache expiration tips.
- Using JavaScript to improve the offline UX.
Single Page Applications (2 hours)
- Single Page Application paradigm.
- #! and escaped_fragment, and fallback.
- Push and pop states (History API).
- Meta data for state.
- Re-injecting and rebinding replaced elements.
- Using third parties, Ajax and JSONP.