JavaScript Fundamentals: A Course for Absolute Beginners
JavaScript is an excellent computer programming or script language from Netscape. It has a close resemblance in ways of its capability with Microsoft’s Visual Basic, Sun’s Tcl, the UNIX-derived Perl, and IBM’s REXX. As a whole, script languages are easier and faster to code unlike the more structured and compiled languages such as C and C++. Though script languages take longer to process than compiled languages, they are very useful for shorter programs. JavaScript is lightweight and so is most commonly used as a part of web pages, whose implementations allow the web pages to be more user interactive.
LiveScript as it was known earlier, JavaScript made its first appearance in Netscape 2.0. The core of the language has been implanted in Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other web browsers. JavaScript is designed majorly for creating network-centric applications. It balances and integrates with both Java and HTML. Client-side JavaScript is the most common form of the language. This helps in making a web page not just a static HTML, but more user interactive. User-initiated events such as button clicks, link navigation, and other actions that the user initiates openly or implicitly can be done using JavaScript. Apart from its increased interactivity, it provides rich interfaces to webpages and can provide immediate response to the visitors. There is also lesser server interaction using JavaScript. JavaScript does not require any expensive tool to start working, a simple text editor like Notepad is enough.
All these qualities make it a very important tool for someone who is interested in creating dynamic web pages. Our course JavaScript Fundamentals will give the students a good idea on the basics of JavaScript.
JavaScript Fundamentals
In this lesson the instructor will introduce you to the world of JavaScript.
You are given a list of prerequisites for getting started to learn JavaScript.
In this lecture, JavaScript is defined with an explanation of various technical terms. Pragmatic and opinionated languages are also explained.
A quick session on ECMA Script is dealt with here in this lecture.
In this lecture, the debugging method is discussed along with the importance of objects and accessing the functions through objects.
This lecture gives you an understanding of variables, variable names as well as compilation.
You will understand what are primitives in JavaScript.
Understand string, its uses and how it works in JavaScript.
Explain Booleans and understand how it works in JavaScript.
A simple test to check your understanding of the topics covered so far.
Explain one of the important features of JavaScript, functions.
Define Arrays and the type of Arrays used in JavaScript.
Discuss the importance of JSON and how it is used as a data exchange format in JavaScript.
Explain Regular Expression and how JavaScript uses them.
Understand the usage of Dates in JavaScript.
A small test to check your understanding of the topics covered so far.
Define Comparisons, Conditionals and Loops.
Explain how Conditionals control the logic flow in JavaScript.
A small test to check your understanding of the topics covered so far.
Explain Functioning programming concepts in JavaScript.
Discuss Errors in JavaScript and how to deal with Errors.
In the final project, your understanding of all the topics discussed are put to test.
