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About the Course

If you want to take your website to the next level, the ability to incorporate interactivity is a must. But adding some of these types of capabilities requires a stronger programming language than HTML5 or CSS3, and JavaScript can provide just what you need. With just a basic understanding of the language, you can create a page that will react to common events such as page loads, mouse clicks & movements, and even keyboard input. This course will introduce you to the basics of the JavaScript language. We will cover concepts such as variables, looping, functions, and even a little bit about debugging tools. You will understand how the Document Object Model (DOM) is used by JavaScript to identify and modify specific parts of your page. After the course, learners will be able to react to DOM Events and dynamically alter the contents and style of their page. The class will culminate in a final project - the creation of an interactive HTML5 form that accepts and verifies input. This can be completed as the third or fourth course in the Web Design For Everybody specialization....

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SP

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The teaching of the professor Colleen is wonderful and very interactive . Troy (teaching staff) is also very supportive .In short a very good course for interactive learning of Java script :)

AK

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A really wonderful course to understand the basics and technicalities of JS. This course is explained in the way as simple and easy as possible. Its a good choice to enroll in this course

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Jul 14, 2019

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By Carsten K

Aug 1, 2020

Was a great intro and learned fun concepts that such as looping that will make my life easier and less time-consuming. The Team does a great job introducing every concept and explaining it step by step, particularly how it might aid you in the "real world".

The focus on accessibility is also sth dear to my heart for personal reasons and highly appreciate that the Team takes the time to highlight ways in which future developers can help others access the internet and ultimately interact with others.

Why one star less? More practical tests to really hone in on the concepts such as Boolean would have been nice.

Overall, I enjoyed the course a lot, learned useful skills, and particularly, learned to help myself. This course won't teach you the solution to every problem, it won't expect you to summarize every command. No, this course will give you the basic knowledge so that you can go on the internet and independently search for solutions to problems you might face.

This course is a great first step! they give you a toolbox with a starter-set, how you are going to progress from here is up to you.

By Juan O L

Feb 11, 2016

I think this course does a pretty good of introducing JavaScript. It covers the essentials of how to create functions and implement event handlers that react to the users, which is the most common use of JS. As an introductory course, it correctly assumes some of its audience has no prior programming background. However, it is difficult to teach programming in such a short time. As an experienced programmer, I would recommend reviewing the order in which some of the concepts are presented to try to help in this aspect.

I was personally hoping that the final assignment would be a bit more challenging, but it was very straightforward. Form handling (the topic in the final week) is certainly where I've used JS the most during my career, so I was glad that it was given special attention.

Again, this is a really good course for beginners; Dr. Van Lent is awesome.

By E. W

Jan 1, 2016

Good course if you want to learn how JavaScript works with HTML and CSS elements to make site pages more engaging but don't have a lot of time for lengthy lectures or assignments that take hours. There's room for the course to grow though. There's so much more a web designer can do with JavaScript to manipulate the DOM and provide a great experience for a site user, and I feel the instructor fell short in explaining event handlers and other cool animation trends seen in the industry. But I understand that this is for new web designers who may or may not be completely interested in programming as opposed to front-end design, so Colleen's teaching provides a good balance.

Love the fact that the lectures are straight to the point. I was able to finish 4 weeks of material in less than 3 days, which for someone busy like me, is awesome!

By Fauzaan M

May 1, 2020

Provides foundational knowledge on a popularly used front-end development language. Those who know a programming language prior to this course, will find it easy. What I did was to use what was taught in the videos to try different combinations of code so I could improve the quality of my learning experience. How good one can get from attending a coding class depends entirely on the individual. I have learnt coding before, and one thing I'm sure of is that coding is not just listening to the lecturer and completing the assignments; its the effort from your side, constantly going beyond the course to try out different variations of what was taught, that truly defines what you learn from it.