ITAD 122 JavaScript and jQuery

5 credits

Students learn to apply programming skills to build dynamic, interactive web pages and web applications. Students use JavaScript and jQuery to manipulate the Browser Object Model, validate forms, use object-oriented techniques, and enhance website usability and user experience by adding dynamic features to the HTML pages.

When enrolling into this class, students are expected to know HTML and CSS syntax, basic programming control structures (loops and if-else statements), and be familiar with array manipulation and function-writing techniques in programming language of their choice.

Prerequisites: ITAD 111 and ITAD 112 or instructor permission.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Use JavaScript data types and operators to write syntactically and functionally correct code
Demonstrate knowledge of both JavaScript and jQuery syntax
Write code that manipulates Browser Object Model and CSS properties of the objects
Use JavaScript control structures for program flow control
Read, analyze, design, and implement function definitions and function calls
Demonstrate knowledge of the browser event model
Handle events with jQuery and JavaScript
Manipulate data in strings and arrays
Validate form data
Create animations and visual effects with jQuery
Add expandable menus, slideshows, and modal dialogs to websites using jQuery
Use jQuery UI widgets
Use jQuery plug-ins
Debug and handle errors in JavaScript code
Use JavaScript and jQuery to implement dynamic, user-friendly web pages