Dojo Training: Introduction to the Dojo Framework with Dijit and DojoX

Course Number: AJX-120
Duration: 3 days
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Dojo Training Overview

Accelebrate's Dojo Training teaches attendees how to build powerful JavaScript Ajax applications using the Dojo Toolkit, Dijit, and DojoX.

Location and Pricing

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Dojo Training Prerequisites

All students should have attended Accelebrate's Mastering JavaScript course or have equivalent experience. If attendees do not have thorough knowledge of JavaScript, please let us know and we will precede this course with a one-day JavaScript primer.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Dojo training class is 50% hands-on, 50% discussion. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Dojo Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware, including print and virtual copies of the class workbook, class exercise files and examples, and a list of bookmarks to relevant documentation.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox version 4.0 or higher with the Firebug (http://getfirebug.com) plugin installed
Optional other browsers: Google Chrome 5.0+, Internet Explorer 8+, Safari 5.0+
An IDE or editor which understands JavaScript syntax (Notepad ++ as a minimum, available at http://notepad-plus-plus.org)
WampServer or equivalent PHP stack
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Dojo Training Objectives

As a result of this training, attendees will:

Understand Dojo's API design and feature set
Master the use of Dojo's core features
Manipulate and traverse the Document Object Model using Dojo's DOM APIs
Create and control your own class hierarchy using Dojo's OO toolkit
Manage events via dojo/on and Dojo's publish/subscribe capabilities
Explore Dijit, the Dojo UI widget library
Learn how to debug Dojo applications
Use the Dojo Objective Harness to test your Dojo-based applications

Dojo Training Outline

Intro to Dojo

What Dojo is and isn't
Our first, basic Dojo script
How to do things the Dojo way

Asynchronous Modules and AMD
Requiring the code you need
Loading Dojo

Baseless Dojo
dojoConfig: Configuring how Dojo is loaded

Retrieving elements

dojo/dom: Asking for an element by name
What do I get back? DOMNodes and Nodes
Creating nodes
Placing nodes
Removing nodes

dojo/query

A different way of retrieving elements
Using CSS Selectors (up to CSS3)
Processing NodeLists

Basic styling

Accessing style information
Changing style settings

Dojo and JavaScript

Array enhancements
Function enhancements
Working with dates
Working with numbers and strings

Dojo and Events

Hooking up events with dojo/on
Removing event handlers
Distributing events across a NodeList
Using dojo's publish/subscribe model

Dojo and Ajax

Ajax architecture
Dojo and Ajax: dojo/request
Typical Ajax tasks

Changing the content of a node
Form processing

Processing data with Ajax

JSON data
XML data

Other dojo/request capabilities

Dojo and Classes

dojo/declare(): Creating classes
Defining methods and properties
Inheritance and Mixins
Constructors

Dijit Widgets

Declarative vs programmatic UI
Form widgets
Layout widgets
Other widgets

Styling Widgets

Using customizable properties
On-the-fly

Creating your own widget

From scratch
Using a template
Creating attributes, getters and setters

Subclassing a widget

Using OO
Adding capabilities

Possible additional topics (which would require extra time)

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