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Starting to Code with JavaScript

In this session we will take our first view into programing using JavaScript.

Duration: 40:45

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Ben Fhala

Ben Fhala is the creative force and founder behind 02geek, a pioneering platform dedicated to making web development accessible to everyone. With over 18 years of experience in the industry, Ben has a deep passion for teaching and a knack for breaking down complex concepts into easy-to-understand lessons.

Starting to Code with JavaScript Overview

What you'll learn

Over the last 8 sessions we explored all the core features of HTML and have crossed over to understand what is CSS and how to work with it. In this session we will take our first view into programing using JavaScript. JavaScript is the web language that enables you to create interactive experiences online. If you haven't taken the other parts until now we strongly encourage you to first take the starter HTML courses located here.

Intro

Learn the basics of how to integrate JavaScript into any web page.

The Script Tag

Learn the basics of how to integrate JavaScript into any web page.

Detecting browsers that don't support JavaScript

In this day and age most browsers have javascript unless the user manually disabled it. It's important for us to validate that our site will work for users without JavaScript (even if not well).

Commenting out Code we don't want to render

In this session we learn how to comment out our HTML code or our JavaScript code.

Using external Files for our JavaScript

In this session we learn how to comment out our HTML code or our JavaScript code.

Creating HTML and JavaScript Image Maps

Creating HTML and JavaScript Image Maps. The first step is we are going to add a new image into our HTML page and define its rules in CSS. Once done we will create our first image Map.

Creating Hot Sports on Images in HTML

After creating an image map it's time for us to create hot areas and define there %u201Chot%u201D clickable area.

Adding Inline JavaScript to HTML

Once we created the hot area in the last session we continue and learn how to add JavaScript actions that will trigger when the user clicks onto our hot areas.

How to get non standard things into HTML

How to get non standard things into HTML. In this session we will learn about Objects and what they are and how to use them to integrate things that are not HTML into HTML.