jQuery training course

What is jQuery and when should I use it?

• Features
• Disadvantages
• Downloading and using the library

Beginning jQuery

• Basics (ID, element, .class, wildcards)
• Hierarchy / inheritance
• Filters – basic, content, visibility, attributes
• Form filters
• DOM element selections 
• Support for CSS 1-3 and basic XPath
• DOM attributes
• Traversal
• Manipulation
• Filtering
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jQuery Features

• CSS manipulation
• Events
• How event handling works – bubbling/capturing, synchronous/asynchronous
•      Simple event handling
•      bind() event handling
•      Delegation

AJAX

•      How AJAX works – client, server, callbacks
•      Simple AJAX code – get(), post(), load(), getScript()
•      Using $.ajax()
• Effects and animations
• Utilities

JavaScript Plugins

• How Plugins work
• Existing Plugins
•       Overlay
•       Validation
• Extensibility
• Calendar
• Writing your own jQuery plug-ins
• $(this) and this
   

Forms

• Creating forms with interactive features
• Autocomplete

jQuery Development

• Testing jQuery code
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Mobile development with HTML, JavaScript & JS libraries

• Introduction
• Devices/platforms
• Webpage or app
• Introducing Development technologies
• Backward compatibility & progressive enhancement
• Scaling
• Technologies
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Libraries
• jQTouch
• jQuery Mobile
• PhoneGap