Advanced JavaScript Training: Advanced JavaScript with Prototype and script.aculo.us

Course Number: SCRPT-102
Duration: 3 days
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Advanced JavaScript Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced JavaScript training class teaches attendees to write production-grade JavaScript using object-oriented programming techniques, good standard coding conventions. Students will learn to catch errors, debug and test, and properly document code with JSDoc.

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=course&page=JSC301.

Advanced JavaScript Training Prerequisites

Mastering XHTML & CSS training or equivalent experience. If attendees will not have thorough knowledge of HTML, please let us know and we will precede this course with a one-day HTML primer. No prior programming experience is assumed, though this course can be swiftly adapted for a programming-savvy audience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Advanced JavaScript training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 10 minutes.

Advanced JavaScript Training Materials

All attendees receive courseware and a copy of Apress' Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 3 or later, Internet Explorer 7 or later, or Safari 3 or later
If Firefox is present, please install Firebug from http://getfirebug.com
The web page or text editor that students will be using after class
Additional lab files and tools – please contact us for details

Advanced JavaScript Training Objectives

Students will:

Review JavaScript functions and the DOM.
Introduce / Review XmlHttpRequest and JSON.
Learn to use advanced techniques, such as anonymous functions and call() and apply().
Learn to use JavaScript's object-oriented features.
Learn to write production-grade JavaScript for high performance.
Learn to use industry-recognized coding standards.
Learn JavaScript debugging techniques.
Learn to work with JSUnit for unit testing.
Learn to document code with JSDoc.
Learn to take advantage of Prototype to speed up development.
Learn to use script.aculo.us to create dynamic affects.

Advanced JavaScript Training Outline

Quick JavaScript Recap

Intrinsic data types (String, Date, Array, etc)
Functions
DOM
XmlHttpRequest
JSON

Advanced JS techniques

functions with flexible number of arguments
Using the || as a coalescing operator
Passing functions as arguments to other functions
Anonymous functions
Merging objects
Using the [ ] operator to access object properties or methods.
eval( )
call() vs apply()

OO Aspects of JavaScript

Leveraging JavaScript's OO Features
Creating simple objects
The perils of "this"
Extending Objects

Production-grade JavaScript

Where to put JS
Coding standards (Yahoo!/Crockford)
Unicode issues
Error handling
Debugging JS
Unit Testing
Code documentation

Prototype.js

what is, who wrote, who uses, who maintains
Extensions to JS classes (String, Array, Object, etc)
String extensions in detail
Enumerables
Base class inheritance
Utility functions
DOM
Ajax
Extending Prototype
Where to get more info (lists, trac, docs)

script.aculo.us

what is, who wrote, who uses, who maintains
Effects
Controls
Where to get more info (lists, trac, docs)

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