Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: Utilizing the HTML5 WebSocket API and Web Workers


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level


Overview/Description
This course covers the use of the HTML5 Web Socket API for implementing fast, lightweight web-based communications, as well as utilizing HTML5 Web Workers to implement efficient multithread processing in web-based applications.

Target Audience
Students with the desire to perform real-time web communications and efficient asynchronous data processing for web applications; students preparing for the Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: Utilizing the HTML5 WebSocket API and Web Workers

  • describe the elements of a WebSocket upgrade handshake
  • recognize how to use WebSocket events
  • demonstrate how to use a WebSocket to connect to an echo server and send and receive messages to/from the server
  • distinguish between different types of web workers
  • recognize Web Worker functionality
  • demonstrate how to create and use multiple web workers to blur an image shown on the page as an HTML5 Canvas element

    • Course Number:
    wd_hjsc_a08_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Expert