Revision of Syllabus for Javascript: 101 and 201 from Tue, 2011-01-04 09:24

JAVASCRIPT 101:

1. History for Javascript

2. How to insert Javascript in browsers

3. Javascript Number object and Number functions

4. Javascript Math Object and it's functions

5. Javascript String object and String functions

6. Javascript Boolean object (along with the concept of truthy and falsy values)

7. null and undefined values

8. What exactly are Javascript objects

9. Javascript syntax (C like, identifiers, reserved words, comments)

10. Operators in Javascript (arithmetic, comparison, logical, bitwise, ternary)

11. Statements in Javascript (if, switch, while, do, for, break, continue, return, try / throw)

12. Introducing functions functions (defining functions, defining variables, returning values)

13. A little more on objects (objects are collections, object literals, object augmentation, linkage, inheritance, object methods, object construction, object methods, object deletion, 'this' object)

14. Arrays in Javascript

15. More on function in Javascript (defining functions, lambdas, functions as objects, inner functions, scope, closure, methods, invocation, form, arguments)

16. How to augment built-in types

17. The 'eval' function

18. Built-in type wrappers

19. Global variables

20. Namespaces

21. Date types

22. Regular expression support in Javascript

23. A very brief introduction to threads in Javascript

24. Platforms for running Javascript

25. Style and good Javascript programming

JAVASCRIPT 201:

1. Javascript inheritance – detailed

2. Singletons in Javascript

3. Modules

4. Inheritance patterns

5. The 'later' method

6. Debugging

7. Introduction to performance and efficiency in Javascript

8. JSON

9. Theory of the DOM

   1. Some history

   2. DOM tree

   3. Events

   4. Manipulating elements

   5. Style

   6. Working with multiple windows

   7. Introduction to cross browser issues

       

Extra knowledge and going forward: This is not part of the syllabus, but I feel those participants who want to delve into deeper aspects of Javascript or those who want to work with Javascript libraries will find this useful. Those participants who finf these topics to be useful or interesting, can discuss these concepts on the course forum or study on their own if they want to pursue it after the course.

1. Woring with external Javascript libraries
2. Javascript - The good parts