JavaScript: Discover the Basics

Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills required to write scripts that can dynamically modify the content of Web pages and manage forms on the client side.

Targeted audience

Web content programmers, web specialists and webmasters.

Content

• The various uses of JavaScript/ECMAScript in contexts other than in the browser
• Elements of the JavaScript language: identifiers, variables, operators, flow control and functions
• Type conversion rules and operator precedence rules
• Variable scope
• Objects: constructors, properties, methods, litteral objects
• Built-in core objects: Number, Date, Array, String and Math
• Document Object Model (DOM) : level 0, core and HTML
• Collections and interface methods
• Dynamically modifying style rules and content
• Using timer events (setTimeout and setInterval)
• Managing events
• Creating an interactive form for calculations