JavaScript Introduction
Duration
Two Days/Lecture & Lab
Pre-requisites
The student should have taken an Advanced HTML, Images, CGI, and Forms course or have equivalent experience. The student must be familiar with HTML and the Internet. A programming background is not strictly necessary but would be helpful.
Summary
JavaScript is a powerful scripting language that, in its various forms, has become a de facto standard for scripting in Web browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. This hands-on course covers JavaScript as it is used in today's most popular browsers, and introduces the emerging ECMAScript standard.
Audience
This course is designed for application programmers and Web developers who will be using JavaScript in the development of Web pages and Web sites.
Course Content
- Using scripting languages
- Cross-platform issues JavaScript versus JScript versus ECMAScript and Navigator versus Internet Explorer
- JavaScript and the client-server what can we do on the client, and what must we do on the server?
- JavaScript syntax types, statements, operators, objects
- Form validation, events and methods
- The document object
- Windows, frames and other browser objects
- Other ECMA objects
- Introduction to dynamic HTML
- Placing JavaScript in context Java, ActiveX, Dynamic HTML, ASP, VBScript, etc.
