jQuery Training: DOM Scripting and Ajax Development using jQuery

Course Number: JQRY-100
GSA/Previous Course Number: 812
Duration: 3 days
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jQuery Training Overview

Accelebrate's DOM Scripting and Ajax Using jQuery training teaches attendees how to use the freely-available jQuery library to simplify nearly any client-side scripting task. Attendees will learn how to write jQuery selectors to round up sets of DOM elements, how to use jQuery's many wrapped set methods to manipulate DOM elements, how to use the jQuery event model to set up event listeners and callback functions, how to manage Ajax requests with jQuery and how to extend jQuery with utility functions and wrapped set method plugins.

This course is current to jQuery 1.4.x.

Accelebrate also offers Creating User Interfaces Using jQuery UI training.

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/xml_html_js.htm.

jQuery Training Prerequisites

Accelebrate's Mastering JavaScript course or equivalent experience. If attendees will 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 jQuery training class is 75% hands-on, 25% 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.

jQuery Training Materials

All students receive a copy of O’Reilly’s jQuery Cookbook as well as a course manual and electronic copies of the class files.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Internet Explorer 6 or higher
Firefox 2 or higher with the Firebug plugin installed
The Web page or text editor students will be using after the class

jQuery Training Objectives

Incorporate the most recent version of jQuery into their Web pages.
Use jQuery in conjunction with other JavaScript libraries.
Perform DOM manipulations using jQuery selectors and other DOM support features.
Initiate Ajax requests with jQuery and handle responses in plain text, HTML and XML formats.
Author plugins that extend jQuery's native functionality.

jQuery Training Outline

Getting Started with jQuery

Downloading the Most Recent Version of jQuery
Using jQuery with Other Libraries
Starting Processing When the DOM Tree is Ready
jQuery Utility Functions

Forming Wrapped Sets with jQuery Selectors

CSS Selectors
Hierarchical Selectors
Basic Filters
Content Filters
Visibility Filters
Attribute Filters
Child-Specific Filters
Form Element Filters
Additional Wrapped Set Methods

Event-Driven Programming with jQuery

Event Helpers
Interaction Helpers: toggle() and hover()
jQuery Event Objects
jQuery Live Events

jQuery and Ajax

The load() Wrapped Set Method
Basic Ajax Requests with $.get() and $.post()
$.getJSON() and $.get Script()
Exercising Complete Control with $.ajax()
Global Ajax Events
Ajax Helper Methods

Developing jQuery Plugins

Best Practices
Utility Function Plugins
Wrapped Set Method Plugins
Providing Default Argument Values

XSLT Transformations with jQuery [upon request; adds 1/4 day to the class at additional cost]

Using the jQuery Transform plug-in
Performing transformations
Handling transformation output
Passing parameters to XSLT stylesheets

jQuery Unit Testing [upon request; adds 1/4 day to the class at additional cost]

Using the QUnit Framework
Developing a Sample HTML Page for Testing
Analysis of a jQuery Unit Test Script

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