Hands On Training

JavaScript Introduction

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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edX

Course Features

Duration

5 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Beginner

Effort

8 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

This course is part of W3C's "Front-End Web Developer" Professional Certificate.

JavaScript lets you add interactive features to your Web sites, including dynamically updated content, controlled multimedia, animated images, and much more. Developed in partnership between W3C and University Côte d'Azur, this introductory course has been designed to help Web developers have an understanding of the basic concepts of the language. We present JavaScript best practices by means of many interactive examples, some of which being demonstrated in live coding videos.

We use JavaScript in the Web browser. Why JavaScript is worth your time:

HTML5, CSS and JavaScript are the “classic three” for developers and designers;
It adds interactivity to your Web sites;
It is powerful, easy to learn, and quick to write;
It has great tools (editors, runtimes, lint tools, browsers, and third party libraries) as well as great online support through plenty of active open source communities.

At the end of the course, we expect you to be able to read the source code of any JavaScript example found on the Web, learn from it, tweak it, and even – why not? – start contributing to open-source JavaScript projects.

Course Overview

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

High school level studies

An interest in learning the basics of programming with JavaScript

What You Will Learn

How to add JavaScript code in your Web site/Web app, and how to debug it

How to make interactive Web sites through the DOM API

How to change the CSS styles of HTML5 elements from JavaScript

How to deal with HTML5 forms

How to make basic graphics and animations using the HTML5 canvas

Course Content

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Module 1: Introduction to JavaScript

Module 2: Adding interactivity to HTML

Module 3: Playing with HTML5

Module 4: Structuring data

Course Instructors

Michel Buffa

Professor at University Côte d’Azur

Michel Buffa is a professor/researcher at University Côte d'Azur (France), staff member of the WIMMICS research group, a joint initiative of INRIA and the I3S Laboratories (CNRS). Recognized as Web p...