Scripting Languages 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.

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.

 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.

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

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