Web Development

This advanced JavaScript short course builds on our beginner level course, introducing students to concepts needed to build more complex scripts and applications.

We will look at JavaScript patterns, the "this" keyword, local storage, variable scoping, JavaScript performance and best practices. We will also explore the potential of using JavaScript libraries to speed up simple tasks such as DOM selection, manipulation and event registration.

The course teaches the fundamental concepts of web design, its implementation using HTML and CSS, and its management. Students are guided through a step-by-step process to create a fully functioning website using examples and exercises.

This course is an introduction to programming using JavaScript on HTML5. The course also covers the basics of programming using JavaScript, such as syntax and basic statements (for, while, if, functions, arrays, objects), the core DOM (Document Object Model) and events. As well as core elements of the JavaScript language, participants learn how to use the HTML-DOM as well as external JavaScript libraries and AJAX.

The course focuses on JavaScript best practices, such as unobtrusive JavaScript and progressive enhancement.

This course is intended to enable those already familiar with HTML to build more powerful web solutions and advance to dynamic, database-enabled, website/intranet programming and applications using PHP and MySQL.

Topics covered include object-oriented programming in PHP, PDO, database integrity, authentication, security and session handling, server side data validation, on-the-fly image generation, PHP libraries and Composer, and configuration of web development environments under Windows and Unix.