Master JavaScript programming

A brief introduction before coding

• Rendering engines.
• Enabling JavaScript in the browser.
• Checking whether JavaScript is enabled.
• HTML, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code editors.
• Browser debugging mode.
• What you need to know before coding.

Introducing JavaScript

• The standard page structure.
• Where to insert JavaScript code.
• Code comments.
• Exception handling.
• Setting up an event handler.
• Variables and data types.
• Type conversions.

Exploring JavaScript

• Operators and expressions.
• Control statements: if–else.
• Iteration statements.
• The specific case of the for statement.
• The specific case of the while statement.
• Loop best practices.
• Defining an array.

Object-oriented programming in JavaScript

• JavaScript built-in objects.
• The Date object.
• The Math object.
• Using a built-in object.
• The String object.
• Regular expressions: the RegExp object.
• Browser-related objects.
• The history object.
• The location object.
• The navigator object.
• The document object.
• Array elements.
• The window object.
• Extending predefined objects.
• Defining objects with the Object class.
• Defining objects using JSON notation.

Introducing events and data

• Accessing DOM elements.
• Exercises using getElementById.
• Dynamically associating an event with an element.
• Passing literal parameters to the event function.
• Passing the this keyword to a function.
• Passing the event keyword to a function.
• The toggle effect.
• The modern event handler.
• Removing an event handler.
• Redirection in JavaScript.
• Managing cookies.
• Creating forms with HTML5 validation.
• Validating forms in JavaScript.

CSS interaction in JavaScript

• Accessing CSS properties in JavaScript.
• Adding and removing a class.
• The StyleSheet object.

Introducing AJAX with JavaScript

• Asynchronous exchanges over HTTP.
• jQuery terminology.
• Installing WampServer.
• Responding to a button click in jQuery.
• Loading a file with AJAX.
• Loading part of a file.
• GET requests.
• POST requests.
• Loading JSON data.
• The $.ajax() method.

Using JavaScript APIs

• The API file.
• Drag-and-drop functionality.
• The geolocation service.
• Local storage.
• Using a Web Worker.
• Using WebG.