This course is part of our onsite training package for corporations interested in hosting a workshop. It takes students through the basics of jQuery focused front-end development. This material is meant to establish a core foundation for developers. With a solid basis of jQuery and JavaScript understanding a developer will feel confident that they can add richness to their web applications.

jQuery Topics Covered

• Intro
  
  • What is jQuery? What isn't jQuery?
  • The DOM and jQuery
  • Getting Started
    
    • Downloading and adding to a page
• Find Something, Do Something
  
  • Decorating with CSS
  • Manipulating the DOM
    
    • Adding, removing and cloning elements
  • Event Handling Basics
    
    • Ensuring the page is ready
    • Attaching to basic events ( e.g. click, mouse events )
• The jQuery Function
• The jQuery Object
  
  • Chaining Methods
    
    • The jQuery Stack
  • Using Plugins
    
    • Popular plugins solving everyday problems

JavaScript Topics Covered

• JavaScript Basics
• The ‘this’ keyword
• Function Invocation options
• ‘arguments’
• Prototypal linkage