Learn JavaScript programming for Beginners

JavaScript introduces students to the basics of JavaScript, one of today's leading web development languages. The course requires knowledge of HTML and CSS and is an ideal transition from HTML into more advanced web technologies and Web 2.0 tools.

The JavaScript Specialist course focuses on the fundamental concepts of the JavaScript language. 

JavaScript is the globally used client-side scripting languages for the web. Most browsers support the language by default, so you can get started using JavaScript and HTML with a simple text editor and browser for testing. Dynamic languages make web pages dynamic without making calls to your web servers for every button click, character typed, or mouse movement. The JavaScript language is so popular that hundreds of developers have made customized libraries that make development easier for other programmers and web designers. If you design web pages, you'll certainly need to know JavaScript to make a custom UI (user interface).

This course gets you started with an introduction to JavaScript. It assumes that you're new to the language, so it gets you started with basic functionality such as creating functions, creating variables, and calling these lines of code from your standard HTML pages. It talks about events and triggers for custom event handling. It talks about pattern matching, searching for text within a page, flow control and the document object model (DOM). We start off with the basics and move on to more complex functionality such as arrays and objects. We then discuss how to script common elements with JavaScript such as forms and tables.  At the very end, we discuss major libraries such as Ajax, which allows you to make asynchronous calls to server-side scripts without reloading the web page in the server.

Whether you're just getting started in web design or want to learn basic JavaScript scripting, this course is for you.