BDA Getting Started with JavaScript and jQuery

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Getting Started with JavaScript and jQuery

What You'll Learn

Learning JavaScript enables you to create enhanced user interfaces and dynamic, interactive websites. If you're comfortable with HTML and CSS but have never done any programming, this workshop will get you started with an overview of JavaScript and its capabilities.

Through engaging lecture, this workshop demonstrates JavaScript fundamentals, including variables, statements, expressions, arrays, objects, and functions. You'll learn how to integrate JavaScript into your website and get a foundation for using JavaScript libraries such as jQuery.

This workshop will cover:

Brief history of JavaScript
Client-side JavaScript and the DOM
Server-side JavaScript
Firefox Web Console and Scratchpad
Adding JavaScript to a web page
Link statement, external js file - like JQuery
Embedded code, limit scope of program
Variables - types, declaring, evaluating, scope, globals and locals
Arrays - types, declaring, basic functions
Objects - some basic examples and operations
Functions - creating, calling, passing parameters, scope
Recursion, Nesting, Closures
Using JQuery - getting it, linking it, understanding it
Using JQueryUI - examples
Other JavaScript Libraries

Who Should Take This

Anyone with a solid grasp of HTML and CSS who wants to begin incorporating dynamic and interactive content into their websites.

Presented By Brian Shaffer

Brian Shaffer is a seasoned web developer and Internet marketer. Over the past eight years, Brian has designed, developed, and marketed over 70 sites that are growing and thriving today. As an HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP expert, Brian builds on all major open source platforms, including WordPress and BigCommerce, to provide companies with sites that they can maintain without knowing how to program. Over the past few years, Brian has taken a liking to Twilio, and has built many phone and text message applications for clients using their platform. Take a look at some of the demos at Brian Shaffer's blog.

$69
BDA Members

$89
Non-Members