Lynda – JavaScript Essential Training

Use JavaScript to add new features and a richer, more compelling user interface on web pages. This course keeps current best practices and practical uses for JavaScript in mind, while covering syntax, working with the DOM, and developing and debugging across multiple platforms, devices, and browsers. Author Simon Allardice also shows how to progressively enhance and gracefully degrade web pages, and take advantage of the world of JavaScript libraries now available.

Topics include:

• Understanding the structure of JavaScript code
• Creating variables, functions, and loops
• Writing conditional code
• Sending messages to the console
• Working with different variable types and objects
• Creating and changing DOM objects
• Event handling
• Working with timers
• Debugging JavaScript
• Building smarter forms
• Working with CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript
• Using regular expressions