Javascript is a license free, client–side scripting language designed to complement HTML and allow the creation of dynamic websites.
This workshop covers the basics of scripting in a web environment, understanding the document object model, and using the Javascript language to write dynamic webpages.
Writing static webpages in HTML and CSS (or a sound knowledge of HTML 4.01 plus a basic knowledge of CSS 2.0) is a prerequisite for this course.
Competence in the use of web browsers, text editors, and the computer's operating system is assumed.
Tutor: Deb Shepherd
Introduction
— to programming and scripting
— to the Javascript language
Getting started
— Javascript syntax
— comments and statements
— programming with pre–set functions
— event handlers
Javascript basics
— expressions, operators, constants, variables, and strings
Javascript conditional statements
— making choices
— the if() statement
— the switch() statement
Javascript functions and Javascript objects
— using Javascript functions
The HTML Document Object Model
— the DOM
— rollover buttons
— the status bar
Javascript forms
— validation
— extracting information
— calculations
— passing information to another page (cookies)
Javascript loops
— the FOR loop
— nesting FOR loops
— the WHILE loop
What Next?
— DHTML
— AJAX
