Johns Hopkins University
Introduction to Javascript and Ajax: Building Web Apps
Johns Hopkins University

Introduction to Javascript and Ajax: Building Web Apps

Yaakov Chaikin

Instructor: Yaakov Chaikin

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Fundamental and advanced Javascript programming concepts

  • How to interact with the Document Object Model (DOM)

  • How to handle user events with Javascript

  • How to create responsive and interactive websites with Javascript and AJAX

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July 2024

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12 quizzes

Taught in English

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There are 2 modules in this course

What fun would a web site be if there was no functionality to it? In this course, we are going to concentrate on learning the fundamentals of the Javascript language. A lot of even seasoned developers “tinker” with Javascript without really understanding how the language works. That leads to viewing the language as more of a nuisance instead of a powerful tool. That is why we are going to concentrate not only on the “how” but also on the “why”, so you are empowered by the Javascript language features, not confused by them. We’ll cover just about everything - from common language constructs and Javascript types to objects, functions, arrays, closures, and scope isolation.

What's included

23 videos4 readings9 quizzes1 peer review

In this course, we are going to take all those newly learned Javascript language skills and learn how to utilize them within the context of a web page. We’ll start by learning how to properly manipulate the web page components using the Javascript Document Object Model API. We will then move on to learning one of the most popular ways of serving up data to a web site - Ajax. We'll learn about the protocol that the language of the web speaks in (HTTP), how to set up and handle Ajax requests and responses, as well as how to process JSON data. We'll finish the course by connecting our restaurant web site from Course 3 (Coding the Static Restaurant Site) to a real backend service that will allow us to pull the data for the restaurant menu dynamically from the server without having to reload the entire page.

What's included

17 videos7 readings3 quizzes1 peer review

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Yaakov Chaikin
Johns Hopkins University
5 Courses1,236,319 learners

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