Instructor: Jim Link

JLink@dcccd.edu

Monday and Wednesday evenings, 7:50pm - 9:50pm, Room T248
August 24 through December 9, 2009

Course description:

Introduction to Web page programming with the JavaScript scripting language.

Learn how to:

• Add interactivity to your Web pages
• Provide feedback to the user
• Control the size and position of the Web browser window itself
• Control and change the visibility, position, and appearance of elements in the Web page, using CSS styles
• Add drop-down or animated menus to a Web page
• Verify and process data that a user enters into an HTML form
• Change a Web page after it has loaded
• Add animation to a Web page
• Perform mathematical calculations
• And more!

Course Outline:

• Introduction to Javascript and the Web
• Variables, Functions, Objects, and Events
• Data Types and Operators
• Debugging JavaScript
• Decision Making with Control Structures and Statements
• Repetition (Arrays and Loops)
• JavaScript with Windows and Frames
• JavaScript with Forms
• Regular Expressions
• Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and Animation
• JavaScript and Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
• Cookies and Security
• Timing and Events