JavaScript/

JavaScript Class /

By Garrett Smith Held weekly, Friday 7pm

dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com

Course Overview

This course covers Object Oriented JavaScript, testing, and the DOM.

EcmaScript Programming Language

• Property accessors, [] and . [[Get]], [[Put]] and the Reference type.
• Prototypal inheritance
• typeof operator
• Arrays
• Primitive types
• Functions, callbacks, "I'm done", Event Notification System
• Scope chain and identifier resolution, Closures
• Entering an execution context (this)
• call, apply)
• [[Construct]], [[Call]]
• Literal syntax [], {}, /a/i RegularExpression literal

DOM

• Debugging Tools
• Validator.w3.org

Patterns and Object Oriented JavaScript

• Decorator pattern
• Custom Events
• EventRegistry
• Factory, Abstract Factory
• Strategy/delegation - Example: APE StyleTransition object.

Tools

• HTML Validator [1]
• CSS Validator [2]
• Dust Me CSS Selectors [3]
• Color Zilla [4]

Resources

JavaScript Development Resources

Projects

We learn by doing. Get involved!

• Porting the FAQ to Github Get involved!