JavaScript Course

• Objects and Arrays
• JSON
• Functions
• Scope
• Closure

• JavaScript Variables
• Working with Numbers and Strings
• A Loosely-typed Language
• Storing User-Entered Data
• Arrays
• Associative Arrays
• Array Properties and Methods
• JavaScript Operators

• Built-in Functions
• User-defined Functions
• Function Syntax
• Passing Values to Functions
• Returning Values from Functions
• Built-In JavaScript Objects
• Typeof Operator

• if - else if - else Conditions
• Switch / Case
• while Loop Syntax
• do...while Loop Syntax
• for Loop Syntax
• for...in Loop Syntax

• The Implicit window Object
• The getElementById() Method
• The getElementsByTagName() Method
• The getElementsByClassname() method
• The querySelector() and querySelectorAll() methods
• Event Handlers
• Creating, Inserting and Deleting Nodes
• Element Position Manipulation
• Scrolling
• Manipulating CSS
• Scripting Inline Styles
• Scripting CSS Classes
• Scripting Style Sheets
• Working with cookies

• Accessing Form Data
• Basics of Form Validation
• The this Object
• Validating Radio Buttons
• Validating Checkboxes
• Validating Select Menus
• Focus, Blur, and Change Events
• Focus and Blur
• Validating Textareas

• AJAX Basics
• Xhr Overview
• Parsing XML
• Parsing JSON
• XhrCallbacks

• Catching and Throwing errors
• Using Assertions

• The navigator Object
• Feature Detection
• history Object
• location Object

• Chrome developer tools overview
• Using the console API
• Using the JavaScript debuggers in Chrome Developer Tools
• Using Firebug and IE Developer tools

RIA Architecture Overview

• Difference between traditional web application and RIA architectures
• Role of JavaScript & related frameworks

• The Flexibility of JavaScript
• JavaScript as a Loosely Typed Language
• Functions as First-Class Objects
• Object Mutability

• Function Objects
• Function Literal
• Function Invocation Patterns
• Augmenting Types
• Recursion & Closures
• Functions as Callbacks
• Function Currying & Memorization

• Binding Function Contexts
• Overriding Function Behavior

• Object Instantiation
• Constructors
• Inheritance and Prototype Chain
• Extending Object
• Extending Number
• Instantiation Issues
• Writing class-like code

• Global Variables
• Scope
• Semicolon Insertions
• Type Coercion

• Avoid string concatenation for dynamic generation of UI
• Template syntax
• Exploring Handlebar.js
• Binding data to templates
• Using pre-compiled templates

• Techniques for modularizing JavaScirpt code
• Pitfalls of polluting global scope
• Self executing anonymous functions
• Using Namespaces
• Using Require.js for loading dependent modules

• jQuery fundamentals
• The jQuery wrapper
• Utility functions
• The document ready handler
• Making DOM elements
• Extending jQuery
• Using jQuery with other libraries

• Selecting elements for manipulation
• Using basic CSS selectors
• Using child, container, and attribute selectors
• Selecting by position
• Using custom jQuery selectors
• Generating new HTML
• Managing the wrapped element set
• Determining the size of the wrapped set
• Obtaining elements from the wrapped set
• Slicing and dicing the wrapped element set
• Getting wrapped sets using relationships
• Even more ways to use a wrapped set
• Managing jQuery chains

• Manipulating element properties
• Fetching attribute values
• Setting attribute values
• Removing attributes

• Adding and removing class names
• Getting and setting styles
• More useful style-related commands

• Replacing HTML or text content
• Moving and copying elements
• Wrapping elements
• Removing elements
• Cloning elements

• Using Form filters
• Manipulating Form Values

• Binding event handlers using jQuery
• Removing event handlers
• Inspecting the Event instance
• Affecting the event propagation
• Triggering event handlers
• Other event-related commands

• Implementing a collapsible list
• Toggling the display state of elements
• Animating the display state of elements
• Showing and hiding elements gradually
• Fading elements into and out of existence
• Sliding elements up and down
• Stopping animations
• Creating custom animations

Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD)

• Understanding the need
• Dependency References

Overview

• Creating Modules
• Defining Functions
• Dependencies
• Defining Modules
• Defining Modules with Names
• Undefining Modules

• Main script
• Base URI and Path
• Using map

• Loading Modules from Packages
• Multiversion support
• Handling loading errors