Learn Computer Programming Online

The goals and values of Ashworth College; time management; creating a realistic weekly and monthly study schedule; the nature and purpose of assessments; how to study effectively to prepare for and take an online examination; developing the skill sets necessary for success in the twenty-first century.

Summary introduction to the concept of computer programs and programming languages; differences in procedural and object-oriented/object-based programs; qualities of programming professionals and a review of the software development lifecycle.

Value types; creating a string literal; creating a number literal; creating a Boolean literal; naming a value with an identifier; creating an object literal; creating an array literal; creating a function literal.

String members; explicitly creating wrappers; converting a value to another type.

Introducing operator precedence and associativity; using JavaScript operators.

Writing conditional statements; taking one of several paths with a switch; writing a while loop; writing a do/while loop; writing a for loop; enumerating members with a for/in loop; snappier conditionals; snappier loops.

Creating objects with a constructor; classical inheritance; prototypal inheritance; cloning members; mixins.

Why use functions; functions are values; function members; conditional advance loading; lazy loading; recursion; borrowing methods with apply() functions or call() functions; currying; chaining methods; closure and returning functions; passing a configuration object; callback functions; memorization; global abatement with modules; arrays.

Traversing and modifying the DOM tree.

DOM interfaces for working with CSS; clarifying some CSS jargon; downloading the sample files; querying a style attribute; scripting classes; scripting rules; scripting imported style sheets; adding or deleting a rule; querying overall styles from the cascade; enabling and disabling style sheets; including or importing style sheets; embedding a style sheet.

Working with the event object; downloading project files; advance conditional loading; telling JavaScript to stop listening for an event; preventing default actions from taking place; preventing an event from traversing the DOM tree; writing helper functions; sliding sprites; drag-and-drop behavior; swapping skins by key; initiating behaviors when the DOM tree is available; fighting global evil.

Downloading the project files; remembering visitor data with cookies; animating with timers; writing dynamic pages using AJAX; yielding with timers; converting function declarations to expressions.

Using JavaScript to communicate with the user; using data more than once: variables; JavaScript expressions; JavaScript operators; inline scripting, simple user events, and basic event handlers; JavaScript keywords and reserved words.

Introduction to JavaScript language objects; the string object; evaluating strings; JavaScript regular expressions; the array object; the date object; setting and extracting time information; the math object.

Interactive forms; overview of form elements; referring to form elements; the form object; the button object; the checkbox object; the text and textarea objects; the radio object; the select object; form validation.

Introduction to JavaScript security issues; browser vs. operating system; browser-specific security issues; browser compatibility and client-side detection; script blocking; differences in document.write commands among browsers; malicious and accidental coding; frame-to-frame URL changing; signed scripts; cross-site scripting (XSS); cookies and security in JavaScript; creating secure JavaScript code.