JavaScript Developer

Course Code: JSD

Duration: 4 days

 
 
 
 

JavaScript Developer Course Overview

JavaScript is one of the most popular and commonly used programming languages today. Not only is it the language of the web and front-end frameworks like Angular and React, but it can now be used to build anything (front-end, back-end, or otherwise) thanks to runtimes like NodeJS.

This course is designed to provide delegates with the knowledge and skills necessary to build modern JavaScript apps. It further serves to set the delegates on course to dive into one of the many JavaScript frameworks. Delegates will learn about everything from variables, functions, and program flow, to functional and asynchronous programming, and managed apps.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

NB: This course assumes ES6 as the baseline specification for JavaScript. This is because ES6 is now widely supported.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide delegates with the skills and knowledge necessary to write core JavaScript code, exploit an understanding of the DOM and event handling to make web pages dynamic and interactive, and to build modern, managed JavaScript applications that exploit modern syntax. Delegates should be able to devise object-oriented and functional solutions to problems, and deal with asynchronous tasks such as IO.

Who will the Course Benefit?

The JavaScript Developer course is aimed at those who are new or have had little exposure to JavaScript, and who will be responsible for building or maintaining JavaScript apps and want to go beyond the fundamentals. It may also be of value to those who wish to refresh/renew their knowledge of JavaScript after some time away from it.

Skills Gained

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Build and deploy a simple web app
  • Make use of built-in data types for managing data
  • Exploit functions to compartmentalise and re-use code
  • Manage program flow via conditions, loops, and error handling
  • Manipulate the DOM
  • Respond to the user via event handling
  • Make use of Web APIs such as Date, JSON, and LocalStorage
  • Make use of modern syntax and operators such as destructuring and spread etc.
  • Grasp the complexity of JS scope including closures and IIFEs
  • Encapsulate data and behaviour by exploiting object-oriented features
  • Exploit functional techniques such as pure and higher-order functions etc.
  • Manage asynchronous tasks via callbacks, Promises, and async await
  • Build a managed app that exploits modules and tooling
  • Code tests to verify behaviour

JavaScript Developer Training Course

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION

  • Setting up the development environment
  • What is JavaScript?
  • HTML and CSS - a brief refresher
  • Embedding JavaScript in HTML
  • Executing JavaScript with NodeJS
  • Browser JS vs. NodeJS
  • A simple example
  • Syntax and comments
  • ECMAScript and JavaScript
  • Deployment

Session 2: VALUES, VARIABLES AND TYPES

  • Values
  • Variables
  • var, let, and const
  • Naming conventions
  • Numbers
  • Strings
  • Booleans
  • Arrays
  • Objects
  • The typeof operator
  • Dynamic typing
  • Type conversion and coercion
  • Arithmetic
  • Handling text incl. template literals

Session 3: FUNCTIONS

  • Function declarations
  • Parameters
  • Return statements
  • Function expressions
  • Arrow functions
  • Declaration, expression, or arrow function?
  • Calling functions
  • Pass by value or reference?
  • An introduction to scope
  • Default parameters
  • Built-in functions

Session 4: PROGRAM FLOW

  • Relational and logical operators
  • Equalty comparisons and sameness
  • Truthy and falsey
  • Conditional statements
  • Iterative statements
  • Error handling
  • Debugging

JavaScript Developer Training Course

Session 5: OBJECTS

  • Objects (again)
  • Properties
  • Dot notation
  • Square bracket notation
  • Function properties (methods)
  • The this keyword
  • Iterating over object properties
  • The Object type
  • Array objects and methods
  • String objects and methods

Session 6: DOM REFERENCING AND MANIPULATION

  • HTML elements and JavaScript objects
  • The DOM
  • DOM referencing
  • DOM data types
  • Element manipulation
  • Creating, adding and removing elements

Session 7: EVENT HANDLING

  • Events
  • Event propagation
  • Event listeners
  • Event listener registration
  • The event object

Session 8: WEB APIS

  • What is an API?
  • Browser APIs
  • Accessing browser APIs
  • Date
  • Math
  • RegExp
  • JSON
  • Client-side storage
  • Geolocation
  • Others

JavaScript Developer Training Course

Session 9: MODERN SYNTAX, OPERATORS, AND DATA STRUCTURES

  • Destructuring
  • Spread
  • Rest parameters
  • Short circuiting
  • Logical assignment operators
  • Enhanced object literals
  • Optional chaining
  • Nullish coalescing
  • Sets and Maps

Session 10: SCOPE

  • What is scope?
  • Types of scope
  • Lexical scope
  • The scope chain
  • Closures
  • IIFEs

Session 11: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

  • What is object-oriented programming?
  • Object templates
  • Constructor functions
  • The this keyword (review)
  • Object prototypes (briefly)
  • Classes
  • Fields, constructors, and methods
  • Static members
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Composition
  • Mutating arrays, e.g. push, splice etc.

Session 12: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

  • Functions (review)
  • What is functional programming?
  • Pure functions
  • Immutability
  • Spread (again)
  • Functions as first-class objects
  • Higher-order functions
  • Callbacks
  • Transforming arrays, e.g. filter, map etc.

JavaScript Developer Training Course

Session 13: ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING

  • What is asynchronous programming?
  • The Event Loop
  • Asynchronous callbacks
  • setTimeout and setInterval
  • Promises
  • async and await
  • Reactive programming and observables (briefly)
  • Asynchronous programming and the fetching of data

Session 14: MODULES, MANAGED APPS, AND TOOLING

  • What is a module?
  • Exporting and importing module features
  • Embedding a module in the HTML
  • Default and named exports
  • Aliases
  • Module objects
  • Modules, packages, libraries, and frameworks
  • Categories of tools
  • Package management
  • Module bundling
  • Transpilation
  • TypeScript
  • Creating a managed app

Session 15: TESTING

  • The purpose of testing
  • The types of testing
  • Running tests
  • Test tools
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • E2E testing
  • Testing async code
  • Using mocks
Notes:
  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

Requirements

Delegates should have some previous programming experience or at least be familiar with programming concepts. Delegates should also be familiar with HTML and CSS. This knowledge can be gained by attendance on the pre-requisite Introduction to Programming - JavaScript and Modern, Responsive Websites with HTML & CSS courses.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Course Reviews

Stuart was an excellence trainer, the content was very well explained and broken down with adequate time for practical exercises.

Dheep - Front end Developer - Government - June 2024

The course was amazing! Until now I have been doing online courses and going off to discord servers to ask questions but having someone in person helps a lot! Stuart's been amazing, who explained things with depth to really understand what JS does in the backend, which other tutorials fail to explain.

Amish - Software Developer - Academic - May 2024

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