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Interactivity with JavaScript

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 and movements, and even keyboard input. This course will introduce you to the basics of the JavaScript language. We will cover concepts such as variables, looping, functions, and even a little bit about debugging tools. You will understand how the Document Object Model (DOM) is used by JavaScript to identify and modify specific parts of your page. After the course, learners will be able to react to DOM Events and dynamically alter the contents and style of their page. The class will culminate in a final project - the creation of an interactive HTML5 form that accepts and verifies input. This can be completed as the third or fourth course in the Web Design For Everybody specialization.

Status: Data Structures
Status: HTML and CSS
BeginnerCourse10 hours

Featured reviews

AK

4.0Reviewed Sep 1, 2020

A really wonderful course to understand the basics and technicalities of JS. This course is explained in the way as simple and easy as possible. Its a good choice to enroll in this course

AB

5.0Reviewed Jul 27, 2017

It's a great course to begin understand JavaScript. It gives you needed basics of JS. And Colleen van Lent is excellent teacher, she helps you in this journey called "coding with JS".

L

5.0Reviewed Feb 8, 2018

Great class. I recommend anyone who are interested in coding to take this course. It can help you understand what is JavaScript and understand what is going on in the coding language world.

FF

4.0Reviewed Feb 7, 2018

Well explained, I learned some interactivity with HTML by learning native JavaScript (was using jQuery always)... Perhaps I expected some more advanced stuff than this (like audio, video, canvas).

SP

5.0Reviewed Aug 24, 2016

The teaching of the professor Colleen is wonderful and very interactive . Troy (teaching staff) is also very supportive .In short a very good course for interactive learning of Java script :)

LC

5.0Reviewed Mar 15, 2016

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.

BH

4.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2016

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.

FA

5.0Reviewed Nov 29, 2019

Great course, it starts from basic code and it is really helpful to get a basic idea about how JavaScript works. Again the code together videos are nice and well explained. Highly recommended.

MS

5.0Reviewed Aug 1, 2020

The instructor is simply amazing at teaching the concepts, and even for absolute beginners with basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, this course helps take your web development skills to the next level!

ST

5.0Reviewed Jul 26, 2020

Just a perfect course for a beginner. The course introduces most the basic concepts. But if someone wants to gain deep knowledge of javascript then this course is a very bad choice.

RA

5.0Reviewed Oct 11, 2016

I have sampled many of the courses here and on other platforms related to javascript and interactivity and found that this series helped me to put together the disparate experiences.

SK

4.0Reviewed May 30, 2018

this is one of the best course cause it start with all basic idea of web designing and give various type of knowledge in this particular subject, and practice work is also well till now.