SCRIPTING LANGUAGES-I

Paper Code: 
WDT 231
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This module is designed to help students in incorporating event handling in the web pages.

Unit I: 

Flowchart based on simple computations, iterations. Execution Trace.

Introduction to client-server technologies, comparison between client-side and server-side scripting, JavaScript: Introduction, Advantages of using JavaScript, Writing JavaScript in HTML, Basic Programming Techniques: Data Types and Literals, Creating variables.

Unit II: 

JavaScript Operators (Arithmetic, Logical, Comparison, String and Assignment operator and special operators: delete, new and void) and Expressions in JavaScript. Creating one and two-dimensional arrays.

JavaScript Programming Constructs: Conditional checking (if-then-else statement), Loops (for loop and While loop)

Functions Basics: parameter-passing basics return statements, global and local variables.

Dialog Boxes (Alert, Prompt and Confirm Dialog Box), Built-in objects - Array, Date, Math and String, Document Object Model, Events, Properties and Methods, Event handling.

Unit III: 

Window: Opening and closing windows, window features, controlling windows- moving, resizing and scrolling, setting window location, accessing Window’s History, Controlling window’s status bar, Setting Window Timeouts and Intervals. Document object, Forms used by a Website, Form Object’s Methods, Form Actions and Form Validation.

Unit IV: 

The concept of Regular expressions, creating patterns, RegExp object- its properties and methods, String methods for Regular Expressions.

Unit V: 

Introduction  to jQuery, Adding the jQuery Library to web Pages, Syntax, Selectors, jquery events: on(), blur(), change(), dblclick(), die(), error(), hover(), ready(), resize(), scroll(), select(), submit(), toggle(), trigger(), triggerhandler(), off(), unload(), jquery Effects, jquery Callback function, jquery HTML manipulation, jquery CSS methods.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Ivan Bayross, “HTML, Javascript, DHTML, and PHP”, BPB Publications.
  2. Thomas Powell, Fritz Schneider “JavaScript-The Complete Reference”, Tata McGraw Hill, Second Edition
REFERENCES: 
  1. James Jaworski, “Mastering JavaScript & JScsript”, BPB Publications.
  2. John Pollock, “JAVASCRIPT -A Beginner’s Guide”, Osborne/TMH
  3. Website: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk.
  4. Website: http://www.w3schools.com.
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