JavaScript Scripting: Introduction

Course Specifications:

Courseware: Introduction to JavaScript Scripting (Multi-platform)

Software: JavaScript

Course length: 1 day

Course times: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Course Description:

Students will learn how to use JavaScript to enhance their Web pages.

Course Objective:

Upon completion of this course, students will understand what JavaScript is and how it works. Students will be able to use JavaScript to display dynamic messages on their web pages, including scrolling banners, date and time, and status bar messages. Participants will also work with HTML data and the JavaScript Central! page.

Target Student:

Students enrolling in this course should have a solid knowledge of HTML, solid knowledge of standard programming techniques, and some knowledge of object-based programming techniques.

Prerequisites:

To ensure the successful completion of JavaScript Scripting: Introduction, we recommend completion of the following MicroAssist courses, or equivalent knowledge from another source:

1. HTML 4.01 Introduction
2. HTML 4.01 Intermediate

Delivery Method:

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Each student is provided with a computer and a Manual. The manual is the student's to keep and makes an excellent reference guide.

Course Content:

Lesson 1: Getting started with JavaScript

1. JavaScript: What is it?
2. JavaScript: What can it do?
3. JavaScript: How does it work?

Lesson 2: JavaScript scripting basics, part 1

1. Displaying messages in the Netscape status bar
2. Displaying the current date
3. Displaying and dynamically updating the current time

Lesson 3: JavaScript scripting basics, part 2

1. Creating scrolling text banners
2. Creating a RoloURL to access URLs from a list

Lesson 4: Validating user-entered data

1. Validating user-entered text data
2. Validating user-entered numeric data
3. Validating user-entered check box data
4. Enabling the Surveys Submit button

Lesson 5: Generating tables and windows

1. Generating an HTML table to display a monthly calendar
2. Displaying the current month in the calendar table
3. Enabling users to display other months
4. Displaying the calendar in its own window

Lesson 6: Managing frames

1. Laying out the final multiframe JavaScript Central! page
2. Displaying documents in windows and frames
3. Creating Back and Forward frame-history navigation buttons