This course is designed for students at all levels who know HTML but have little or no experience with JavaScript.

The course teaches the fundamentals of JavaScript as a web programming language, including basic programming concepts as they apply to using and writing JavaScript. The focus is on learning to create interactivity using JavaScript with text and graphics. This course lays the foundation for continuing with JavaScript in the Intermediate JavaScript course.

Students who have used pre-written scripts will find this a useful course to learn the underlying concepts of the JavaScript language and web scripting -and you'll learn to write your own scripts!

• Introduction to JavaScript
• The script element
• Browsers and JavaScript
• Creating an alert box
• Using a prompt for user input
• Debugging scripts in browsers
• Numerical calculations
• Increment and decrement operators
• Operator precedence

• JavaScript data types
• Using variables in JavaScript
• Variable scope
• Basic string operations
• Concatenating strings
• Mixing numbers and strings
• Comparison operators
• if statement
• Logical operators (and, or, not)
• else and else if statements
• switch statement
• Loops (for, for...in, while, do...while)
• break and continue statements

• Introduction to functions
• Passing parameters
• Introduction to objects
• Object properties and methods
• Creating objects

• Introduction to arrays
• Using multidimensional arrays
• Array objects, properties, and methods
• Date objects
• Displaying current date and time
• International time (UTC)
• Creating a timer
• JavaScript Object Models
• The Math object
• Using random numbers
• String objects
• Basic string manipulation

• Event handlers
• Event models
• Event capturing
• Event bubbling
• The window object
• Frames and the window object
• Opening new windows
• Moving and resizing windows

• Web Standards
• The Document Object Model
• HTML documents as tree structures
• DOM objects
• DOM properties and methods (the document, Element, and Node objects)
• Browser detection
• The navigator object
• The screen object
• The location object
• Creating single rollovers
• Creating multiple rollovers