JavaScript Language Basics

Overview/Description
JavaScript is a client-side interpreted scripting language that enables you to enhance static web applications by working in tandem with HTML and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). This course will introduce the history of JavaScript and outline how it is commonly used to develop dynamic web sites. Moving into the fundamentals of the language, the course will demonstrate the use of script in web pages, and the basic elements of the language, including variables and data types, operators, statements, and functions. This course is one of a series covering the fundamentals of the JavaScript language.

Target Audience
All organizations or individual consultants with a working knowledge of HTML and basic programming concepts, who intend to use JavaScript with HTML to develop interactive web applications that utilize cross-browser client-side scripting.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

JavaScript Language Basics

identify the uses and capabilities of JavaScript

recognize key characteristics of JavaScript

recognize the practical advantages of using key elements in JavaScript

recognize how to open, close, and add a statement to a simple JavaScript program

place an opening JavaScript tag in an HTML page

use the write and alert functions in a basic JavaScript program

load an external file into a JavaScript page

turn a JavaScript program into a valid XHTML version that will work on non-XHTML-compliant browsers

choose an appropriate name for a variable in a given scenario

recognize how to use parseInt or parseFloat to convert data types in a given scenario

recognize how arithmetic, unary, relational, and Boolean operators are used to affect data values in JavaScript

distinguish between conditional, assignment, comma, and bitwise operators

distinguish between key statement types

recognize how to complete a statement to define or call a given function

recognize what is meant by variable scope and lifetime

declare and initialize a variable in a given scenario

complete a switch statement within a function

add arithmetic operators within a function

call a function