Core JavaScript

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

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