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JavaScript Class

By Garrett Smith Held every Friday, 7-9pm

dhtmlkitchen at gmail.com

Course Overview

This course covers the fundamentals of the EcmaScript programming language, the DOM, and object-oriented design. It is intended for experienced web developers and programmers of other languages, however all are welcome.

Class Notes

Notes for individual classes.

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

Patterns and Object Oriented JavaScript

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

Resources

Please see the consolidated JavaScript and web development resources.

Resources

JavaScript Development Resources

Projects

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• Porting the FAQ to Github Get involved!