Scripting for the Web

Javascript & jQuery for Platt College

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Welcome to Platt’s Web Scripting (WS 300)

We’ll be learning JavaScript and jQuery – the easy and efficient way to create interactivity in your websites!
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Academics

This is a required Term 5 web class for Platt College.

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Community

Asking questions is an important part of your participation grade.

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Excellence

Work hard and do your best to get the most out of this class.

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Exploration

This is one step in your journey to become a web professional.

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Class Evaluations

You are expected to do an anonymous class evaluation. The school and I take the feedback in these seriously. I can use the information (especially the comments) to improve the following class. Any constructive criticism is appreciated and will go toward making this class a better experience for everyone. I won’t see the results for […]

Lesson 13

Image Animation We’ve skipped over Lessons 11 & 12 because they are games that we’re not doing in this class. This might help us catch up to learn other things that are more relevant to what we are doing. I hope to cover ajax in this class. Today we cover moving backgrounds and sprites. Download […]

Lesson 10

DOM Manipulation II More ways to manipulate our documents. Let’s finish with sticky nav and a scroll to top function. Checkpoint 1 An informal meet up with me before you leave class to let me see your initial progress. Production Day Get your work done. Don’t make me wanna be like this panda!

Random Quote:

believe the power of jQuery is highly underutilized. Most developers will take advantage of its shortcuts and CSS selectors, but most of the time they fail to take advantage of much else. Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full-blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer. — Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes