University of Michigan

Using JavaScript and JSON in Django

This course is part of Django for Everybody Specialization

Taught in English

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18 hours (approximately)
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What you'll learn

  • Explain and give examples of many-to-many relationships in data modeling

  • Write syntactically correct JavaScript language and demonstrate debugging capabilities

  • Build objects using JavaScript

  • Explain basic elements of low-level jQuery

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There are 5 modules in this course

As we begin to add interactive elements to our web pages, we need to learn JavaScript. For students with a JavaScript background this will be a bit of review as we learn JavaScript from a Django perspective.

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10 videos4 readings1 quiz

The Object-Oriented approach in JavaScript is different from Object Orientation in Python in some important ways. So we look at the unique features of the OO pattern in JavaScript. The high level concepts are the same between Python and JavaScript but the implementation details are different in important and subtle ways.

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6 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item

We look at particular aspects of the JavaScript run-time in a browser including manipulation of the Document Object Model(DOM), timers and event handling.

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6 videos1 reading1 quiz

JSON and AJAX allow web pages to add interactivity and interact with the back-end without sending entire web pages back and forth to the server.

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9 videos1 reading1 quiz1 app item

In this module we extend our application to add search to our classified ads application.

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3 videos3 readings1 app item

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Charles Russell Severance
University of Michigan
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