What Is Programming? And How To Get Started
January 28, 2025
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Most businesses with a strong online presence wish to provide its consumers a rich interactive user experience. HTML5 and CSS3 frameworks help you build a static web page, that displays content and works on any device. However, to make a page interactive you need a programming language that can be understood by the browsers. JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web.
In this course, you will learn to use JavaScript to add behavior to your web pages. You will create web content that is more interactive by adding animations, menus, scrolling text, interactive maps, and other kinds of lively content. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on the user's device
JavaScript is a versatile language to build both frontend and backend applications. In this learning sprint you will learn about dynamic typing, loops, conditional statements and functions .
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Most of the data exchanged between Client and Server these days is JSON. JSON can contain arrays, objects or a combination of them. In this learning sprint you will learn to structure data using Objects and Array and also apply transformations using Array Methods.
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Interactive Web Pages provide great User Experience. They just don't respond to user's interactions but also keeps them engaged and coming back for more. JavaScript is the way to build interactive Web Pages. In this learning sprint you will learn to add interactivity by understanding about DOM and DOM Events.
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JavaScript can help you saving lot of network bandwidth by preempting server validation and performing client side validation. In this learning sprint you will learn to validate users data using client side JavaScript.
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One of most popular protocols used for exchange of information is HTTP. Browsers and Application Servers exchange information using HTTP Protocol. In this learning sprint you will learn about HTTP, HTTP Methods and how do we exchange information with Application Servers.
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There are tasks which can make pages Unresponsive. Like getting data from the server can be time consuming and can hinder user from using the rest of the application, until the data is received. You will learn to build asynchronous applications using Promises and Callbacks to provide uninterrupted responsive experience to users.
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Static resources like JS, CSS, images usually take large share of network bandwidth causing slow and unresponsive user experience. In this learning sprint you will learn to optimize static assets which is faster and responsive user experience.
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Producing top quality products requires rigorous testing. Web isn't an exception. In this learning sprint you will learn to think and write test cases using JavaScript Libraries to test your Web Application.
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Great explanation for trainee/junior developers.
I do a lot of educational explanations with a friend of mine and it is hard. This course helps me to share knowledge that uses in the real world.
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