Mastering JavaScript and jQuery Essentials

Mastering JavaScript and JQuery Essentials is a comprehensive, hands-on course geared for web developers who need to learn basic JavaScript and JQuery to use with today's systems and architectures to build sophisticated web interfaces. JavaScript is simple and elegant but is often difficult to work with because it's so different from the programming languages most developers are used to utilizing. The training will guide students through a balanced mixture of theory and practical labs to gain core JavaScript development skills and have them explore its related technologies through to the use of tools and libraries to ease the development of advanced web applications.

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Learning Objectives

Working within in a dynamic, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will:

  • Become both familiar with the language and confident enough to work with it in any context
  • Learn enough of the DOM API to bend it to your will
  • Make communication between the browser and your server possible
  • Understand and effectively leverage closures
  • Understand how JavaScript's object model differs from the model classical object-oriented programming languages
  • Learn what jQuery is and how to add it to your applications
  • Use jQuery to select complex sets of elements from the DOM
  • Develop rich web pages that respond to user interaction
  • Interact with your server-side code using Ajax
  • Explore a wide variety of plugins and learn how to write your own
  • Test your applications to make sure your JavaScript is as solid as the rest of your code

 

Students will understand:

  • What is JavaScript, how does it relate to other programming languages, and how do you script your web pages with it?
  • How do you traverse and manipulate the DOM and how do you handle events in ways that work in all browsers?
  • What is Ajax and how does JavaScript make it possible?
  • What are closures and prototypes and other exotic features of JavaScript?
  • What is jQuery and why should you use it?
  • How does jQuery reduce the amount of code that you have to write to add rich functionality to both existing and new web pages?
  • How does jQuery make Ajax programming easier?
  • What best practices are there for using jQuery so that it works unobtrusively and performs well?
  • What plugins and extensions are available to enhance your applications even more than the core jQuery library can provide?

 

Audience & Pre-Requisites: Who Should Attend

This is an introductory level course for experienced software developers seeking to enhance and extend their core web development skillset leveraging JavaScript and JQuery. Attendees should have practical experience developing basic software applications. This course provides an excellent foundation for continued learning to gain in-demand skills in in-demand skills and technologies such as NodeJS, Angular, React, Redux and more. This course can also be tailored for less experienced or non-developers as needed. Please inquire for details.

 

 

Related Courses

Take Instead: We offer other courses that provide different levels of knowledge or focus:

  • TT4110 Web Essentials | Introduction to JavaScript (3 days)
  • TT4650 Web Essentials | Introduction to with HTML5/CSS3 and JavaScript (3 days)
  • TT4600 Mastering Web Development using HTML5, CSS3, JQuery & More | Covering Responsive Web Design, Best Practices & Performance (4 days)

 

Take After: Our core modern web developer training courses provide students with a solid foundation for continued learning based on role, goals, or their areas of specialty. Our web developer learning paths offer a wide variety of continued learning paths such as:

  • Next Level Web Development / JavaScript Frameworks Topics: Angular, React / Redux, NodeJS, ES6 etc, MEANStack / MERNStack
  • Additional supporting technologies: JQuery, BootStrap & more
  • Mobile web development courses
  • Web development security or testing training

Outline

 

Session: Core JavaScript Essentials

Lesson: JavaScript Basics

  • JavaScript Defined
  • Variables and Operators
  • Flow Control and Conditionals
  • Lab: JavaScript Basics

 

Lesson: Debugging Tools

  • Using the strict mode and setting breakpoints
  • Browser debugging tools
  • Monitoring resource usage and performance
  • Emulating devices Exceptions in JavaScript
  • Lab: JavaScript Debugging

 

Lesson: JavaScript Functions

  • Functions in JavaScript
  • Invoking Functions
  • Function Constructor
  • Function Scope and Closures

 

Lesson: JavaScript Arrays, Math and Date

  • JavaScript Literals
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • Working with Numbers and Dates
  • Lab: JavaScript Built-in Objects

 

Lesson: JavaScript Event Handling and the DOM

  • Events and Event Handling
  • HTML Document Object Model
  • Accessing the DOM
  • Dynamically Working with the DOM
  • DOM Challenges
  • Lab: Using Events and the DOM

 

Lesson: Object-Oriented JavaScript

  • JavaScript “Objects” and “Classes”
  • Constructors and Prototypes
  • Prototypes
  • Extending Classes with Prototype
  • Reusable, Flexible Classes
  • Lab: Working with Classes

 

Session: jQuery

Lesson: Why jQuery?

  • JavaScript Evolution
  • Why jQuery?
  • jQuery Usage
  • Downloading jQuery

 

Lesson: Basic jQuery

  • jQuery: Operational Overview
  • jQuery Capability Overview
  • Basic Selectors
  • Multiple Selector
  • Selecting by Order
  • Lab: Installing and Testing jQuery

 

Lesson: Manipulating the DOM

  • Attributes vs. Properties
  • CSS Box Model Properties
  • Element Content
  • Manipulating Children
  • Wrapping and Unwrapping
  • Effects (Basic Animation)
  • Effects Queues
  • Lab: CSS Selection

 

Lesson: More on Element Selection

  • Hierarchical Selectors (Combinators)
  • Attribute Selectors
  • Basic vs. Child Filters
  • Filtering Methods
  • Traversing Methods
  • Lab: Delving Into jQuery

 

Session: Working with jQuery

Lesson: Attributes, Forms, and DOM

  • Selecting from Forms
  • Selecting Parent and Children
  • Automatic DOM Traversal
  • Manipulating DOM Elements
  • Getting and Setting Attribute Values
  • Removing Attributes
  • Lab: Dynamic DOM

 

Lesson: More jQuery!

  • The jQuery Function
  • The jQuery Object
  • Some jQuery “Static” Methods
  • Utility Methods
  • Lab: jQuery Practice

 

Lesson: Event Handling

  • Binding Multiple Events to Same Handler
  • Multiple Events to Different Handlers
  • Event Targets
  • Triggering Events
  • Custom Events
  • Live Events
  • Lab: jQuery Events

 

Lesson: More On Elements!

  • Changing HTML Content
  • Changing Text Content
  • Managing Elements
  • Introduction to Animations

 

Lesson: Ajax

  • Posting Data
  • Global Ajax Handlers
  • JSONP
  • Serialization
  • Deferred Objects
  • Promises and Piping
  • Chaining Tasks
  • Lab: jQuery Selectors and Content Manipulation

 

Session: jQuery Plugins and Enhancements

Lesson: jQuery Plugins

  • jQuery Validation Plugin
  • jQuery Form plugin
  • jQuery BBQ (Back Button &
  • Query) Plugin
  • jQuery Hotkeys Plugin
  • jQuery Color Plugin
  • Lab: jQuery Plugins

 

Lesson: jQuery UI

  • jQuery UI Effects
  • Advanced Easing
  • Interactions
  • Position Utility
  • Widgets
  • Icons
  • Lab: jQuery UI

 

Lesson: Templates

  • Micro Templates
  • jQuery Template Plugin
  • Compiling Templates Template Items

 

Session: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Lesson: JSON Objects

  • Understand JavaScript's literal syntax for creating arrays and objects
  • Understand object literals
  • Understand arrays
  • Understand arrays in objects
  • Understand objects in arrays

 

Lesson: JSON Syntax and Processing

  • Understand JSON Syntax
  • Understand JSON Parsers
  • Read and write object and array literals in JavaScript
  • How to use JSON in an Ajax application
  • Understand the advantages of using JSON
  • Understand the disadvantages of using JSON
  • How to use JSON in an Ajax application
  • How to transfer data to and from the server

 

Lesson: jQuery, JSON, and AJAX

  • jQuery AJAX Utility Method
  • jQuery and JSON
  • jQuery and Other Data Types
  • Serialization
  • Deferred Objects
  • Promises and Piping
  • Chaining Tasks
  • Lab: Implementing JSON

 

Session: Advanced JavaScript Topics

Lesson: ES6: The Next Step

  • ES6 Defined
  • ES6 Default and Rest Parameters
  • IIFE and Closures
  • ES6 Importing/Exporting Modules
  • Arrays, ES6 Maps, and ES6 Sets
  • Working Arrays with ES6
  • Working Strings with ES6 Strings
  • ES6 Constructs and Inheritance
  • ES6: Getters and Setters
  • Lab: Working with ES6

 

Lesson: HTML5 JavaScript API

  • Cross-Domain Messaging
  • Working with Web Storage
  • Offline with Application Cache
  • Geolocation: What, Why, and How
  • Lab: Using the Web Storage API
  • Lab: Using the ApplicationCache API

 

Lesson: TypeScript

  • Strong Data Typing
  • Compiling TypeScript to JavaScript
  • TypeScript Datatypes
  • TypeScript Classes and Interfaces

 

Lesson: JavaScript Best Practices

  • Code Conventions for the Lifecycle
  • Resolving Shared Resources
  • Constructs to Use
  • Constructs to Avoid
  • Memory Considerations

 

Lesson: JavaScript Scheduling, Execution, and Security

  • Timers and Scheduling
  • Execution Contexts
  • Same Origin Policy and JavaScript
  • Security Considerations

 

Lesson: Performance and Optimization

  • Code Optimization
  • JavaScript Verbosity Tradeoffs
  • Memory Considerations
  • Cyclic References

 

Lesson: Download Options

  • Explain the basic principles underlying web application performance optimization
  • Understand the role of downloading options in smoothing bandwidth usage
  • Understand how caching can reduce bandwidth usage

 

Lesson: Security

  • Security: The Complete Picture
  • Unvalidated Input
  • Injection Flaws
  • XSS
  • Spoofing
  • How Attackers See JavaScript Applications
  • OWASP Top Ten for 2017

 

Session: Web Design

Lesson: Responsive Web Design

  • Adapting to Varying Screen Sizes
  • Scaling Page and Text Content
  • Scaling and Adapting for Media
  • Options for Adjusting Media
  • Lab: Make a Responsive Page

 

Lesson: User Interface Principles

  • Design Principles
  • Improving Interactions with Users
  • Matching Web Flow to User Expectations

 

Lesson: Layout Techniques

  • Page Layout Consideration
  • Stacking Content
  • Handling Excessive Content
  • Providing Consistency Across Web Presence
  • Lab: Design: Using Responsive Web Design Patterns

 

Lesson: Navigation Techniques

  • Handling Excessive Content
  • Providing Context and State Feedback
  • Navigation Placement and Techniques
  • Exercise: Design: jQuery Events Project

 

Lesson: Selection Techniques

  • Improving Text Input
  • Improving Enumerated Input
  • Accessibility Considerations


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