Students continue to develop refine basic programming skills. The student will acquire skills needed to design, develop, and produce practical applications with a specific scripting or programming language.  This quarter we are going to re-focus on fundamentals of XHTML and Javascript and how we can use the DOM to make the two work together.

• Course Materials
  • Textbook: VQG: Javascript & Ajax by Tom Negrino
  • Course Syllabus
• Week 1
  • Lecture: HTML Fundamentals Review
  • Lab/Homework: HTML Fundamentals
  • HTML Core (Handout)
  • HTML Cheat Sheet (from ILJD)
  • Quiz 1
• Week 2
  • Lab 1 Review
  • Lecture: CSS Fundamentals Review
  • Lecture: CSS Selectors
  • Quiz 2
  • Demonstration: Application of CSS - fonts, positioning, visibility methods, bordering and backgrounds
  • Lab/Homework: CSS Fundamentals
• Week 3
  • Lab 2 Review
  • Lecture: Selectors, properties and values (CSS and the DOM)
  • Quiz 3
  • Practical Lab:
    • Choosing selectors
    • Box model
    • Positioning
    • Floating
    • Height
    • Images
• Week 4
  • CSS Video Review
• Week 5
  • Quiz 4
  • Lecture: Basics of Javascript
  • Practical Lab: download
    • 5.1: Script Sources
    • 5.2: Variable Construction
    • 5.3: Private and Public Variables
    • 5.4: Variable Examples
    • 5.5: Conditional Examples
    • 5.6: Functions
  • Lab/Homework: Javascript Validation (due 08/22/08)
• Week 6
  • Lecture: Thinking in Javascript
  • Lab: Complete Week 5 Assignment
  • Quiz 5
• Week 7
  • Lecture: Power of Arrays, For Loops, Javascript Methods
  • Lab/Homework: TBA
  • Quiz 6