Most businesses with a strong online presence wish to provide its consumers a rich interactive user experience. HTML5 and CSS3 frameworks help you build a static web page, that displays content and works on any device. However, to make a page interactive you need a programming language that can be understood by the browsers. JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web.
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In this course, you will learn to use JavaScript to add behavior to your web pages. You will create web content that is more interactive by adding animations, menus, scrolling text, interactive maps, and other kinds of lively content. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on the user's device
What You Will Learn:
Build interactive, optimized, and testable web applications using JavaScript
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Get Started with JavaScript Routines
JavaScript is a versatile language to build both frontend and backend applications. In this learning sprint you will learn about dynamic typing, loops, conditional statements and functions .
WEEK 2
Wrangle Data using Objects and Arrays
Most of the data exchanged between Client and Server these days is JSON. JSON can contain arrays, objects or a combination of them. In this learning sprint you will learn to structure data using Objects and Array and also apply transformations using Array Methods.
WEEK 3
Develop Interactive Web Pages using DOM and DOM Events
Interactive Web Pages provide great User Experience. They just don't respond to user's interactions but also keeps them engaged and coming back for more. JavaScript is the way to build interactive Web Pages. In this learning sprint you will learn to add interactivity by understanding about DOM and DOM Events.
WEEK 4
Validate User Data using Client Side JavaScript
JavaScript can help you saving lot of network bandwidth by preempting server validation and performing client side validation. In this learning sprint you will learn to validate users data using client side JavaScript.
WEEK 5
Interact with Application Servers using HTTP Protocol
One of most popular protocols used for exchange of information is HTTP. Browsers and Application Servers exchange information using HTTP Protocol. In this learning sprint you will learn about HTTP, HTTP Methods and how do we exchange information with Application Servers.
WEEK 6
Build Asynchronous Data Driven Applications Using Promises and Callbacks
WEEK 7
Optimize Delivery of Static Assets using JavaScript
Static resources like JS, CSS, images usually take large share of network bandwidth causing slow and unresponsive user experience. In this learning sprint you will learn to optimize static assets which is faster and responsive user experience.
WEEK 8
Test web applications using JavaScript testing frameworks and libraries
Producing top quality products requires rigorous testing. Web isn't an exception. In this learning sprint you will learn to think and write test cases using JavaScript Libraries to test your Web Application.
