This course is an intermediate level JavaScript course, which focuses on JavaScript's object-based features, and creating practical JavaScript applications including:

• Forms validation
• Using keyboard events
• Regular expressions in JavaScript
• The basics of Ajax techniques
• Dynamic DOM Scripting
• Custom JavaScript objects

This class features current web-standards compliant scripting techniques using the DOM.

It's expected that students will have varying levels of skill and experience with scripting, so both a basic assignment and an advanced assignment will be offered each week for students to choose from in order to meet course requirements.

Applicable Job Roles: web programmers, and web application developers.

• HTML form basics
• The JavaScript form object
• Using JavaScript for form validation
• Using JavaScript with select and option
• Using event handlers with form controls
• Passing form data to functions
• Improving form usability

• Using keyboard events for form validation
• Keyboard event handlers - onKeyDown, onKeyUp, and onKeyPress
• Keyboard events - using key codes and character codes
• Cross-browser issues in keyboard events
• String methods for characters

• Creating regular expressions in JavaScript
• Regular expression patterns
• Escape codes, special characters, and flag characters
• String methods for regular expressions
• Using JavaScript and regular expressions for pattern matching
• The RegEx object
• RegEx methods

• Ajax basics
• The XMLHttpRequest object
• Requesting the Data
• Properties of the request object
• Sending the request
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

• DOM review
• Using DOM methods to access objects
• Using the Style object
• The className property
• Usability and error message display

• Objects in JavaScript
• Using prototypes and instances
• Creating objects
• Primitive and reference datatypes
• Object properties and methods
• Using JavaScript libraries