JavaScript Training Course

JavaScript Training Course teaches JavaScript using the by-example methodology that focuses on hands-on learning. This course's unique and classroom-tested learning path contains hundreds of small, easy-to-understand examples that demonstrate the full range of JavaScript's power.

One step at a time, JavaScript Traiing Course guides new JavaScript programmers through every essential technique, from script setup to advanced DOM and CSS programming.

• Data types, literals, and variables
• Operators, control structures, and functions
• Building dialog boxes and working with JavaScript objects using the Browser object: navigator, windows frames, dynamic images, and links
• Event handling, regular expressions, and form validation
• The JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Dynamic HTML

Whether you're a first-time or long-time scripter, a Web professional or sysadmin, this course will help you write rock-solid JavaScripts that get the job done.

Introduction to JavaScript

• What JavaScript Is and What JavaScript Is Not
• What JavaScript Is Used For
• JavaScript and Events
• What Versions? What Browsers?
• Where to Put JavaScript
• JavaScript and Old or Disabled Browsers
• JavaScript from External Files

Script Setup

• The HTML Document and JavaScript
• Syntactical Details
• Generating HTML and Printing Output
• About Debugging

The Building Blocks: Data Types, Literals, and Variables

• Data Types
• Variables
• Bugs to Watch For
• Exercises

Dialog Boxes

• Interacting with the User Exercises

Operators

• About JavaScript Operators and Expressions
• Types of Operators Number, String, or Boolean?
• Datatype Conversion
• Special Operators

Under Certain Conditions

• Control Structures, Blocks, and Compound Statements
• Conditionals
• Loops

Functions

• What Is a Function?
• Debugging

Objects

• What Are Objects?
• User-Defined Objects
• Manipulating Objects

JavaScript Core Objects

• What Are Core Objects?
• Array Objects
• Array Properties and Methods
• The Date Object
• The Math Object
• What Is a Wrapper Object?

The Browser Objects: Navigator, Windows, and Frames

• JavaScript and the Browser Object Model

The Document Objects: Forms, Images, and Links

• The Document Object Model
• Introduction to Forms
• Introduction to Images
• Introduction to Links

Handling Events

• Introduction to Event Handlers
• Event Handlers as JavaScript Methods
• Handling a Window or Frame Event
• Handling Mouse Events
• Handling Link Events
• Handling a Form Event
• Handling Key Events: onKeyPress, onKeyDown, and onKeyUp
• Handling Error Events
• The event Object

Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching

• What Is a Regular Expression?
• Creating a Regular Expression
• Getting Control—The Metacharacters
• Form Validation with Regular Expressions

Cookies

• What Are Cookies?
• Creating a Cookie with JavaScript

Dynamic HTML: Style Sheets, the DOM, and JavaScript

• What Is Dynamic HTML?
• What Is a Style Sheet?
• Types of Style Sheets
• Where Does JavaScript Fit In?

JavaScript Web Resources

• HTML Documents: A Basic Introduction
  • Intro to the Intro
  • What Is HTML? HTML Tags
  • The Minimal HTML Document
  • Character Formatting
  • Linking
  • Adding Comments
  • Case Sensitivity
  • Graphics and Images
  • Troubleshooting
  • Metatags, Cascading Style Sheets, and Java
  • Looking Behind the Scenes (or, What Did We Do Before the Right-Click?)
  • What About Frames?
• CGI and Perl: They Hyper Dynamic Duo
  • What Is CGI?
  • Internet Communication Between Client and Server
  • Creating a Web Page with HTML
  • How HTML and CGI Work Together
  • Log Files
  • Where to Find CGI Applications
  • Getting Information Into and Out of the CGI Script
  • Processing Forms with CGI
  • The CGIpm Module