Mastering JavaScript and JQuery Essentials

The course begins with an initial look at JavaScript and how it is used within the context of web applications, walking students through the different technologies that are used with JavaScript and exploring core aspects of JavaScript and JQuery in terms of web applications, security, tools and frameworks. In this course you will learn about: 

· Become both familiar with the language and confident enough to work with it in any context

· Learn enough of the DOM API to bend it to your will

· Make communication between the browser and your server possible

· Understand and effectively leverage closures

· Understand how JavaScript's object model differs from the model classical object-oriented programming languages

· Learn what jQuery is and how to add it to your applications

· Use jQuery to select complex sets of elements from the DOM

· Develop rich web pages that respond to user interaction

· Interact with your server-side code using Ajax

· Explore a wide variety of plugins and learn how to write your own

· Test your applications to make sure your JavaScript is as solid as the rest of your code