About this course
JavaScript is the world's most popular language and is widely used in almost all web projects. JQuery has also become hugely popular within few years of its launch. These two technologies are must for any web developer and in order to help you master them in a practical manner we have created this elite course where you will use these technologies to create actual projects and will learn the nuances of their usage in real world.
The following projects have been selected for this course
CH1: Simple JavaScript Quiz
Description: We will start with a fairly simple project of a one page, multiple choice JavaScript quiz. In this projct we will look at some of the essentials when it comes to HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. We will look at event handlers, variables and even 'for loops' and arrays
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Variables & Arrays, Loops, Responsive Design
CH2: jQuery Content Slider
Description: jQuery is well known for thigs like image gallerys, sliders, scrollers, etc. We will be building a very clean application which will allow us to click a 'next' button to fade in the next slide and a 'prev' button to go in the reverse direction. We will use the fadeIn() and fadeOut() animation methods to do this
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Lists, jQuery selectors, methods like addClass() and removeClass() and animation methods like fadeIn() and fadeOut()
CH3: YouTube Search Engine
Description: In this project we will use the YouTube Data API v3 to build a video search engine. We will use the 'search . list' method to do this. We will also implement 'FancyBox', which is a lightbox script. This will allow use to have the video open on our site instead of being redirected to YouTube.
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Youtube Data API v3, jQuery $.get() request, inserting HTML via html() method
CH4: FAQ Accordian Slider
Description: We will build a content accordion. This is great for an FAQ section but ofcourse could be used in many different contexts. We will use the slideToggle() method and some others
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Lists, jQuery Selectors, jQuery slide methods
CH5: Ajax PHP Shoutbox
This project will implement many technologies to build a shoutbox/chat module. We will build a backend MySQL database and connect via PHP. We will then make a request to another .php file which will insert the data into the correct tables
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin
CH6: Apple Style Thumbslider
In this project we will build an image slider much like ones you see on Apple's website and apps. It will use thumbnail banivation as well as autoscroll
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Custom animate() method
CH7: Create a jQuery Plugin
In this chapter we will actually create a simple jQuery plugin, get it ready and then upload it to the jQuery. com plugin registry. We will also look at using Git and Github. com
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery plugin conventions, Git, Github, Command line utility
CH8: jQuery Portfolio Gallery
We will build an image gallery with a few features such as categorization, lightbox effect and overlay effect
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Lightbox2 Plugin
CH9: jQuery Mobile App
This will be our first mobile based app. We will use HTML5 and jQuery Mobile framework. You will learn how to build multi-page templates with jQuery Mobile. We will be building a miletracker app which will allow you to enter run or jog mileage and the date along with the ability to update and delete. localStorage will be used for storing data
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, localStorage api
CH10: Tic Tac Toe
This will be a nice and simple application. It is a very basic tic tac toe game. It will implement a few rules and conditionals for things like not being able to click in the same square twice.
Features/Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, Conditionals
What are the requirements?
- Basic Javascript, HTML and CSS should be known to the student
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 50 lectures and 9 hours of content!
- Master JavaScript for Web projects
- Learn the use of JQuery
- Use JavaScript and jQuery in professional projects
- Design web projects more effectively and elegantly
What is the target audience?
- Basic Knowledge of Web programming is Expected. This is not a beginner's course
- Intermediate Web programmers and developers shall find this course extremely useful