JavaScript Essentials: Getting Started
Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level
Overview/Description
JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language, supporting imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming styles. This course covers the basics of JavaScript – from setting up the development environment to writing your first code. It also covers basic structures, such as loops and arrays, and functions and objects.
Target Audience
Developers looking to skill up in JavaScript and anyone with an interest in writing JavaScript code
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.1
Lesson Objectives JavaScript Essentials: Getting Started
start the course
describe how to set up a JavaScript development environment
describe the features and functionality of the Internet Explorer 11 developer console
describe best practices for JavaScript code spacing and formatting
describe the methods for including JavaScript in web pages
describe three methods for adding JavaScript to an HTML document based on the standard of HTML
declare and initialize a variable
declare and use an If statement that executes different code based on a condition
write a switch statement containing case and break statements
use While and Do While loops
use a For loop
declare an array
loop through an array using the index
describe functions in JavaScript
encapsulate JavaScript with custom functions
pass values from an HTML form to a function that runs different code based on the values
differentiate between local and global variables
use array functions to manipulate array elements by adding, removing, and sorting elements
describe anonymous functions in JavaScript
create custom objects in JavaScript
use the for...in loop to retrieve object properties when their names are unknown
create your own custom objects in JavaScript using constructor functions
create object methods in JavaScript
use the prototype keyword to add properties and methods to an object in JavaScript
obtain the attribute of an object in JavaScript
use the prototype keyword to implement inheritance in JavaScript
Course Number: sl_jsce_a01_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner