JavaScript Training: Intermediate JavaScript Language Skills and Coding Practices

Course Number: SCRPT-101
Duration: 3 days
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Intermediate JavaScript Training Overview

Accelebrate's Intermediate JavaScript Language Skills and Coding Practices training class is a hands-on course that teaches attendees how to use JavaScript language skills such as regular expressions, closures and Ajax, and how to write fast-executing code that conforms to established best practices.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=category&page=JavaScript.

Intermediate JavaScript Training Prerequisites

All attendees must have prior HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Intermediate JavaScript Training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Intermediate JavaScript Training Materials

All Intermediate JavaScript Training students receive a copy of O'Reilly's JavaScript: The Good Parts and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 3 or later or Internet Explorer 7 or later
The Web page or text editor that students will be using after class

Intermediate JavaScript Training Objectives

All students will learn to:

Use regular expressions to validate data
Implement structured exception handling
Manipulate Document Object Model (DOM) elements
Manage Ajax requests
Create custom JavaScript object classes
Use advanced JavaScript techniques such as closures
Write JavaScript code using established coding standards and best practices

Intermediate JavaScript Training Outline

Introduction

Quick JavaScript Recap

Variables and Data Type
Intrinsic JavaScript Objects (String, Array, Date, Math)
Functions
Conditional and Iterative Logic

Regular Expressions

The Building Blocks of Regular Expressions
Implementing Regular Expressions in JavaScript
Regular Expression Object Methods
String Methods That Accept Regular Expressions
Backreferences
Data Validation

Structured Exception Handling

Using try/catch
Throwing Your Own Exceptions
Using finally

Event-Driven JavaScript

Tag-Based and Code-Based Event Handlers
Setting Up Event Listeners
Writing Event Callback Functions

The Document Object Model

The Legacy DOM
The W3C DOM Standard
Traversing the DOM Tree
Manipulating DOM Elements

Ajax Development

Creating the XMLHttpRequest Object
Managing Ajax Requests

HTML Response
XML Response
JSON Response

Object-Oriented JavaScript

Creating a Plain JavaScript Object
Creating an Object Class
Using the prototype of the Class Constructor
Extending Native JavaScript Objects

A Closer Look at JavaScript Functions

Functions with a Flexible Number of Arguments
Anonymous Functions
Passing Functions to Other Functions and Function Instance Methods
Closures

Production-Grade JavaScript

Where to Put JavaScript Code
Minifiying and Compressing .js Files
Debugging JavaScript
JavaScript Unit Testing Using QUnit

JavaScript Best Practices

Unobtrusive JavaScript
Separating Page Structure and Logic
Progressive Enhancement via Feature Detection
Coding Standards (Crockford/Yahoo)

Survey of JavaScript Frameworks - time permitting, the course will cover basic aspects of whichever JavaScript framework your organization uses; typically one of the following:

jQuery/jQuery UI
Yahoo User Interface
Prototype/script.aculo.us
Ext JS™
Moo Tools
Dojo

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