Javascript for Programmers

It presents tools and techniques for programmers and webmasters to add Javascript code to their HTML pages to make them dynamic, interactive, intelligent, and high performance.

The training materials are at http://www.keller.com/javascript.

Both of the most popular browsers (Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer) are supported.

• Two full days
• Emphasis on practical skills
• Hands-on
• Instructor-led and classroom-based, with printed and on-screen (web) materials

• Use browsers as their user interface.
• Build powerful and easy-to-use forms, with logic and validation built-in.
• Process data on the desktop rather than on the server, for performance and interactivity.
• Develop complex and powerful web-based applications, including sessions and persistent data.

• Validate and edit fields in web forms.
• Create interactive mouseover graphics effects.
• Handle events.
• Use the Document Object Model's objects, including documents, forms, fields, images, history, and arrays.
• Perform arithmetic and date calculations.
• Process text and apply regular expressions.
• Use cookies and hidden fields to preserve state information.
• Open child windows and dialog boxes.
• Generate dynamic web pages.
• Display messages on the status line.
• Detect the browser and version.
• Write functions, loops, branches, and tests.

• Each technique is applied in a lab.
• Sample source code is provided.
• You read and write lots of Javascript.

• A PC or workstation for the instructor
• A projector for the instructor's computer screen
• A PC or workstation for each student
• A connection to the Internet
• A web browser on each computer