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Training Course Summary:

FastTrack to JavaScript is a 2-day course that provides experienced Web application developers with the fundamentals of the JavaScript programming language, with a focus on using JavaScript as a client-side language for ColdFusion-based applications. Students will learn immediately useful "real-world" JavaScript techniques for manipulating Web page components like forms, images and browser windows.

Pre-Requisites:

To gain the most from this class, you should:
• Experience with the HTML tag set and syntax
• Basic understanding of the ColdFusion language and SQL
• Knowledge of programming concepts

Training Course Overview/Content:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
• Understand the role of client-side scripting in the browser
• Develop and integrate JavaScript into your Web applications
• Use JavaScript operators, expressions and control and data structures
• Implement cross browser JavaScript using the Document Object Model
• Understand JavaScript's effective use in form field validation
• Manipulate text strings through a variety of useful JavaScript methods
• Extract data from JavaScript programs to interact with server-side code
Topics Covered
• Understanding client-side scripting basics
• Integrating JavaScript with Web applications
• Working with the Document Object Model and HTML forms
• Implementing data and control structures
• Manipulating strings and advanced data structures
Outline
• Introducing Fast Track to JavaScript
• Integrating JavaScript into Web pages
• JavaScript Expressions and Operators
• The Document Object Model
• JavaScript Control Structures
• JavaScript Data Structures
• HTML Forms, the DOM and JavaScript
• Text Manipulation in JavaScript
• Custom Object Types in JavaScript
• Dates and Times in JavaScript
• JavaScript and HTTP Cookies
• JavaScript and WDDX
• JavaScript Resources