JavaScript Online Course

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RRP: £60.00
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JavaScript online courseThe JavaScript online course is a great way to get up to speed with the basics of JavaScript quickly and easily if you have never used it before.

Throughout the course you will go through various practical examples that teach you about Variables, the JavaScript language structure, JavaScript Operators, Loops, Functions and Scope, The DOM, JavaScript Libraries and more.  By the end of this course you will be able to read and write JavaScript code and use it to enhance your own web content.

The course is delivered through Highlander's learning management system and is made up of over 3 hours of video tutorials written by Alex Silver, a Senior Instructor here at Highlander, together with hands on exercise files and instructor led course support forums.

Prerequisites

You should have completed the Intro to HTML course or have equivalent skills prior to taking this course.

Course Overview

Introduction & Overview

  • Introduction
  • Overview
  • Development and testing
  • Writing

Introduction to Variables

  • Variables
  • Objects and arrays

JavaScript language structure

  • Structure part 1
  • Structure part 2

About JavaScript Operators

  • What are Operators
  • Using modulus
  • Using parentheses
  • Greater and less than
  • Comparisons
  • Unary operators
  • Pre and post fix
  • Using typeof and instance of

Boolean logic

  • What are booleans?
  • Ifs
  • Switch and case

Loops

  • For loop
  • While loop

Functions and scope

  • What are functions
  • Function arguments
  • Scope

The Date class

  • Date class and methods

The DOM

  • What is the DOM
  • Using JavaScript to walk the DOM tree
  • Using JavaScript to play around with the DOM

JavaScript libraries

  • Basic overview of JQuery
  • Other JavaScript libraries

Basic JavaScript Examples


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