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Programming with JavaScript

5 Day Course
Hands On
Code QAJAVSC

This course has been retired. Please view currently available Javascript Training Courses.

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Introduction to Javascript (3 topics)

  • What is javascript
  • How to place script in a web page
  • Developer tools

Types (6 topics)

  • Understanding javascript types
  • Primitive types
  • Reference types
  • Learning to check for type
  • Defending against Type mutation
  • Operators

Flow of Control (4 topics)

  • If statements
  • Ternary If
  • Switch statements
  • Loops

Functions, Arrays and Objects (10 topics)

  • Arrays
  • Creating Arrays
  • Accessing Arrays
  • Functions
  • Creating functions
  • Calling functions
  • Functions and scope
  • Objects
  • Creating Objects
  • Accessing Objects

Error Handling and Debugging (9 topics)

  • Understanding the Error object
  • The Inbuilt Error types
  • Creating resilient code using try/catch statements
  • Throwing Errors
  • In Browser Debugging
  • Browser developer tools
  • Console Debugging
  • Logging to the console
  • Breakpoints

The DOM (5 topics)

  • Why the DOM
  • Using the DOM
  • Selecting elements
  • CSS Selector patterns
  • Generating new content

CSS (5 topics)

  • Understanding the style object
  • Reading and setting CSS properties
  • CSS Classes and Javascript
  • The calculated style of an object
  • Adding and removing classes

The Browser Object Model (12 topics)

  • What is the BOM
  • Cross-browser issues
  • The 'core' BOM
  • The window object
  • Other BOM objects
  • The location object
  • The history object
  • Document methods
  • Cookies
  • The Screen object
  • The viewport
  • Window objects

Event Handling (10 topics)

  • Understanding javascript events
  • Subscription models
  • Inline
  • Programmatic
  • Event listeners
  • Debugging events
  • Event bubbling and capturing
  • The Event object
  • The 'this' keyword
  • Legacy browsers

Forms and Regular Expressions (12 topics)

  • Understanding forms
  • What are forms
  • HTML hierarchy
  • Selecting form elements
  • Accessing form elements
  • Form methods and events
  • Input element events
  • Form and field validation
  • Regular expressions
  • What is RegEx
  • Using RegEx to analyse data
  • HTML5 forms overview

Timers and Asynchronous programing (7 topics)

  • What are timers
  • Timer types
  • setInterval
  • setTimeout
  • Common timer issues
  • requestAnimationFrame
  • cancelAnimationFrame

Functions and Closures (7 topics)

  • Advanced function design
  • Closures
  • What are closures and how do they work?
  • Using closures to simplify development
  • Self-executing functions
  • Parameterised self-executing functions
  • Strict mode

Object Orientated Javascript (8 topics)

  • Objects revisited
  • Creating your own objects
  • Constructors
  • Prototypes
  • Chaining objects
  • Overloading and overriding
  • With statements
  • Sealing objects

AJAX and JSON (10 topics)

  • What is Ajax?
  • Ajax enabling technologies
  • XMLHttpRequest object
  • Client and Server architecture
  • XMLHttpRequest - Requests
  • XMLHttpRequest - Responses
  • JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • JSON Structures
  • ECMAScript5 JSON object
  • Deserializing JSON

Cross Browser Development (7 topics)

  • The cross browsers issue
  • Choosing what browsers to support
  • Browser grading
  • Progressive enhancement vs. graceful degradation
  • Browser vs. feature detection
  • Conditional scripts in IE
  • Handling legacy addEvent patterns in IE

Introducing jQuery (9 topics)

  • What is jQuery?
  • Adding jQuery
  • Using jQuery via a CDN
  • jQuery UI/Plugins/Mobile
  • Selecting elements with jQuery
  • jQuery chaining
  • Manipulating properties with jQuery
  • Events with jQuery
  • jQueryUI datepickers/tabs/dialogs/accordions

Modern Web Development (9 topics)

  • The open web
  • Git and software development
  • Bower, Grunt, Yeoman and Gulp
  • Understanding NPM and packaged components
  • Initialising applications and working package.json
  • Exploring task runners and generators such as Grunt and Gulp
  • Using Gulp to build an automated task runner and compiler
  • Introducing continuous integration and development
  • Building a CI/CD Gulp task runner

Introducing AngularJS (4 topics)

  • Installing and working with the AngularJS framework
  • Creating and running Angular Apps using Generator
  • Understanding Single-Page Applications and MVC: AngularJS Views; AngularJS Models; AngularJS Controllers
  • Understanding Dependency Injection and Code Reuse

ECMAScript2015: Variables and Types (2 topics)

  • Introducting the new keywords
  • The 7th data type

ECMAScript2015: Strings, Objects and Arrays (5 topics)

  • The new string literal syntax
  • Enahnced Object Literals
  • New methods for Strings, Objects and Arrays
  • The for...of loop
  • Destructuring

ECMAScript2015: Classes and Functions (3 topics)

  • Using the new class syntax to write slicker OO code
  • Clearer code using arrow functions
  • Introducing default values and rest parameters

Prerequisites

  • Delegates must be familiar with HTML and CSS with around six months experience and a skillset equivalent to 'Building an Effective Web Site'.

  • Some familiarity with programming would be beneficial and we recommend 'Programming Foundations' to new developers.

Please note: Before attending this class delegates must have a Microsoft account (signing up one is free). The instructions on how to set up a Microsoft account can be found here.

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