Video Description
Are you looking for essential how-to instruction on programming with JavaScript? Look no further than this one-of-a-kind video training course. JavaScript is a web scripting language that allows you to build dynamic web pages and add interactivity to your site. Our instructors provide expert, straight-forward, user-friendly video training to help you get up and running with JavaScript the way you want to learn. The course covers very basic JavaScript techniques and terminology all designed to give you a solid grounding in JavaScript’s capabilities and concepts. It starts with the basic elements of the JavaScript language and builds up to working with JavaScript in the browser. You will learn how to alter site content, add behaviors like clicks and key presses, and commands for interacting with a web server. If you’re looking for beginning-level video instruction on JavaScript, you’ll find it here. Lesson files for this course can be found here http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-826160.htmlTable of Contents
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Lesson 1
- Introduction to JavaScript 00:03:52
- Tools for the Course 00:08:50
- Working in the REPL 00:11:35
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Lesson 2
- Javascript Is a Language 00:20:00
- Expressions, Literals, Operators 00:11:36
- Truthiness 00:05:55
- More Operators 00:14:36
- Statements & Variables 00:16:08
- Arrays & Objects 00:20:52
- Control Structures 00:13:49
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Lesson 3
- Functions 00:14:12
- More Functions, More About Functions 00:22:25
- More Objects 00:14:52
- Methods 00:07:26
- This 00:08:40
- Scope, Environments, Hoisting 00:13:18
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Lesson 4
- Pitfalls to Avoid 00:13:02
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Lesson 5
- Javascript in the Browser 00:14:19
- The DOM 00:03:54
- Selecting & Affecting Page Elements 00:18:04
- Event-Driven Programming 00:14:00
- jQuery 00:09:46
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Lesson 6
- JS Functions Are 'First-Class Citizens' 00:09:26
- Callbacks 00:09:14
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Lesson 7
- Prototypes 00:19:33
- Creating Objects with Constructor Functions and Object.create() 00:20:30
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Lesson 8
- Closures 00:16:08
- Extending Built-In Objects 00:09:45
- Method Chaining 00:05:56
- "use strict"; 00:10:37
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Lesson 9
- Some Javascript Libraries 00:11:07
- Useful Tools 00:07:08
- Next Steps 00:07:14