Intro to Programming With JavaScript

JavaScript is one of the core building blocks for making interactive websites (and mobile applications). It can be used for form validation, creating menus, adding animation and slide shows and any other kind of logic you can think of to a web page -- it also works in every modern web browser. We'll use JavaScript as the programming language to each you the fundamentals of programming, including:

Programming Basics
Working with Variables and Arrays
Conditional Statements, Branching, if/else statements
Repetition / Looping
Defining JavaScript Functions
Handling HTML Events
Using Browser and Document Objects (DOM manipulation)
Form Validation
Object literals
Working with JSON and Ajax
An Introduction to other JavaScript technologies (jQuery, Node, Angular, etc).
Tips on debugging JavaScript applications

Prerequisites: This class is designed for beginners. It's recommended that students have some prior exposure to HTML and CSS. No prior programming experience is required -- we'll start at the very beginning, with how to write your very first JavaScript program, and build along the way as we add new concepts into the curriculum.