jQuery Training: DOM Scripting and Ajax Development using jQuery

Course Number: JQRY-100
Duration: 4 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 efficient jQuery selectors to round up sets of DOM elements, how to use the framework's many methods to manipulate DOM elements, how to use the jQuery event API to set up event listeners and event delegation, how to manage Ajax requests with jQuery and how to extend jQuery with custom filters and methods.

We're happy to customize course coverage to any version of jQuery, including the most current release.

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/?action=category&page=jquery .

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 Apress’s Pro jQuery as well as a course manual and electronic copies of the class files.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Internet Explorer 7 or higher (Internet Explorer 8 or later preferred)
Firefox 3 or higher with the Firebug plugin installed
Other browsers (Chrome, Safari and Opera) as desired
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 harmoniously with other JavaScript libraries.
Retrieve DOM elements using jQuery selector expressions and make changes to the elements’ structure, content, and styling.
Create interactive and responsive Web pages using jQuery’s event API
Initiate Ajax requests with jQuery and handle responses in HTML, XML, and JSON formats.
Author plugin methods that extend jQuery's native functionality

jQuery Training Outline

Getting Started with jQuery

Getting the Most Recent Version of jQuery
Framework Structural Overview
Using jQuery with Other Libraries
Commencing Execution When the DOM Tree is Ready
Survey of jQuery Utility Methods

Selecting and Manipulating DOM Elements with jQuery

Using CSS Selectors

Basic CSS Selectors
Hierarchical Selectors
Attribute Selectors

Adding jQuery Filters to Your Selectors

Basic Filters
Content Filters
Visibility Filters
Child-Specific Filters
Form Element Filters

Survey of Additional jQuery Object Methods

Event-Driven Programming with jQuery

Event Helper Methods
Interaction Helpers: toggle() and hover()
A Closer Look at the jQuery Event Object
jQuery Live Events and Event Delegation
Exploring Ways to Pass Data to Event Callbacks
jQuery Custom Events
jQuery Special Events

jQuery and Ajax

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

Extending jQuery

Adding Custom Filters to Selectors
Best Practices for Plugin Methods
Utility Method Plugins
jQuery Object Method Plugins
Providing Default Argument Values

Conclusion

Accelebrate can customize your jQuery course with an additional day of content covering particular plugins your development team may be using or considering. Previous customized classes have included coverage of some subset of the following:

jQuery UI

jqGrid

jCarousel

jQuery Cycle

jTemplates

Kendo UI

QUnit (unit testing framework)

Tablesorter

XSLT Transformations

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