Video description
Are you looking for essential how-to instruction on programming with JavaScript? Look no further than this one-of-a-kind video training course. JavaScript is a web scripting language that allows you to build dynamic web pages and add interactivity to your site. Our instructors provide expert, straight-forward, user-friendly video training to help you get up and running with JavaScript the way you want to learn. The course covers very basic JavaScript techniques and terminology all designed to give you a solid grounding in JavaScript’s capabilities and concepts. It starts with the basic elements of the JavaScript language and builds up to working with JavaScript in the browser. You will learn how to alter site content, add behaviors like clicks and key presses, and commands for interacting with a web server. If you’re looking for beginning-level video instruction on JavaScript, you’ll find it here. Lesson files for this course can be found here http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-826160.html
Table of Contents
Lesson 1
Introduction to JavaScript
Tools for the Course
Working in the REPL
Lesson 2
Javascript Is a Language
Expressions, Literals, Operators
Truthiness
More Operators
Statements Variables
Arrays Objects
Control Structures
Lesson 3
Functions
More Functions, More About Functions
More Objects
Methods
This
Scope, Environments, Hoisting
Lesson 4
Pitfalls to Avoid
Lesson 5
Javascript in the Browser
The DOM
Selecting Affecting Page Elements
Event-Driven Programming
jQuery
Lesson 6
JS Functions Are ‘First-Class Citizens’
Callbacks
Lesson 7
Prototypes
Creating Objects with Constructor Functions and Object.create()
Lesson 8
Closures
Extending Built-In Objects
Method Chaining
“use strict”;
Lesson 9
Some Javascript Libraries
Useful Tools
Next Steps