If you want to take your website to the next level, the ability to incorporate interactivity is a must. But adding some of these types of capabilities requires a stronger programming language than HTML5 or CSS3, and JavaScript can provide just what you need. With just a basic understanding of the language, you can create a page that will react to common events such as page loads, mouse clicks & movements, and even keyboard input.
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- Document Object Model (DOM)
- JavaScript
- Web Development
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week One: Introduction to JavaScript
Week Two: Reacting to Your Audience
Week Three: Arrays and Looping
Week Four: Validating Form Data
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- 4 stars19.34%
- 3 stars4.10%
- 2 stars0.75%
- 1 star0.39%
TOP REVIEWS FROM INTERACTIVITY WITH JAVASCRIPT
This course covers the part of javascript that is used to interact with DOM. The lectures are clear and lucid in explaining the content. The difficulty level of the assignments is easy.
Well done. I think Javascript is hard to start out in, it makes it hard to review the class. But it was just about right for me. The first assignment almost had me giving up, but it all ended up ok.
First submission had not been fully explained (i.e. no mention of needing ++) but otherwise course content was good. Colleen is an excellent presenter and I could listen to her all day.
An excellent course, my JavaScript has improved greatly since I completed the requirements. Colleen is a fantastic teacher, I found the lectures to be highly informative and the assignments good fun.
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