JavaScript

JavaScript Class

By Garrett Smith Held weekly, Friday 7pm

Course Overview

This course covers Object Oriented JavaScript, testing, and the DOM.

EcmaScript Programming Language

• Property accessors, [] and .
• Prototypal inheritance
• typeof operator
• Arrays
• Primitive types
• Functions, callbacks, "I'm done", Event Notification System
• Scope chain and identifier resolution, Closures
• Entering an execution context (this)
• call, apply)
• [[Construct]], [[Call]]
• Literal syntax [], {}, /a/i RegularExpression literal

ECMA 6

• Promises
• Modules

DOM

• Debugging Tools
• Validator.w3.org

Patterns and Object Oriented JavaScript

• Decorator pattern
• Custom Events
• EventRegistry
• Factory, Abstract Factory
• Strategy/delegation - Example: APE StyleTransition object.

Reading Code & Flow of Control

• Backbone http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

Tools Cleanup

• Dust Me CSS Selectors [1]
• Color Zilla [2]

Resources

• HTML Validator [3]
• CSS Validator [4]