JavaScript 2: AJAX

 

Course Details and Syllabus

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Course: JavaScript 2: AJAX
Tuition: $398
Time Frame: With our monthly lab fee system, this course is completely self-paced. You can expect to work approximately 40 hours on this course.
Technical Requirements: As long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can take this course from anywhere in the world.
CEUs: 4 Continuing Education Units with official letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.
Software: The web-based Learning Sandbox® provided for you will contain all your lessons, projects, quizzes, account files, editors, and rendering tools necessary to build your skills from beginning to end, even beyond coursework. No other software is needed.
Instructor: You will have one instructor throughout the course who will evaluate your projects and quizzes, hand them back for improvement when necessary, and coach you throughout your skills advancement.
Book: All required course materials and software are included online within the Learning Sandbox®. However, within a few weeks of enrolling, you'll receive the free book Head Rush Ajax as a thank-you from O'Reilly.
Certificates: Completion of this course counts toward the Client Side Web Programming Certificate Series.
Prerequisites: Introduction to HTML and CSS and JavaScript 1: Introduction to JavaScript, or equivalent solid foundations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Though this course will be creating HTML documents that interact with Perl scripts, it is not necessary to know Perl scripting. This course is meant for the intermediate or advanced programmer.
Topics: Browser detection, AJAX with XML documents, AJAX with Perl scripts, string objects, form validation, using the Google Maps API, cookies and how to create user-friendly AJAX applications, etc.
Syllabus:
  • Browser Detection
    • The Navigator Object: appName
    • The Navigator Object: appVersion

  • Introduction to AJAX
    • AJAX: A Definition
    • AJAX: An Analogy

  • XML
    • XML Document Structure
    • XML Elements
    • XML attributes

  • Your First AJAX Application
    • Hello World Example
    • HTTP Request Object

  • AJAX: Phonebook
    • XML: Phonebook Document
    • HTML with AJAX: Returning Values to the Webpage

  • String Objects
    • Partial Searches: The match Method
    • Partial Searched: The substr Method

  • AJAX: Retrieving Information from a Perl Script
    • Perl: Phonebook Document
    • HTML with AJAX: Returning Values to the Webpage

  • AJAX: Sending Infomration to a Perl Script
    • Perl: Writing to a Text Document
    • Perl: Reading from a Text Document
    • HTML with AJAX: Returning Valuest to the Webpage

  • Form Validation
    • Required Fields
    • Valid Values
    • Wildcards

  • Google Maps and the API
    • APIs: An Introduction
    • Obtaining a Google Map API Key
    • Geocoding Using your Phonebook Application

  • Cookies
    • Cookies: An Introduction
    • Storing and Retrieving Searches
    • Creating a Welcome Cookie

  • Making the Application User Friendly
    • AJAX: The Disadvantages
    • Bookmarks and the Back Button
    • Updating the User
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