In this training course, expert Bob Tabor teaches you the basics of programming with JavaScript. The tutorial is designed for the absolute beginner - no prior JavaScript programming experience is required in order to get the most out of this video training.

You will start with learning what programming is, and specifically, what JavaScript is, how it it used, and its limitations. You will discover variables and data types, and how to take input and create output. The course covers conditions, loops, arrays, sorting, functions, paramaters and debugging. You will even learn advanced concepts such as OOP, string manipulations, regular expressions and other programming patterns. Because JavaScript is so tightly integrated with browsers, you will also learn some HTML5, CSS, DOM (Document Object Model), jQuery programming, event handling and how it all works together!

By the conclusion of this JavaScript programming tutorial, you will have an in-depth grasp of the capability of JavaScript, and you will understand how to create and deploy solid JavaScript programs for your website projects. Working files are included to allow you to work alongside the author using the same files that references throughout the training course.
The course covers following themes:

- Series Introduction
- Writing your First JavaScript Application
- Dissecting the First JavaScript Application You Wrote
- Writing JavaScript in Visual Web Developer Express Edition
- JavaScript Variables, Types, Operators, and Expressions
- Conditional Logic in JavaScript
- JavaScript Functions
- JavaScript Arrays
- Looping Statements in JavaScript
- Understanding Function versus Global Scope
- Working with External JavaScript Files
- Organizing and Simplifying JavaScript with Object Literals
- Understanding the Document Object Model
- Getting Started with jQuery
- jQuery Selectors
- jQuery Events
- Installing and Utilizing jQuery Plugins
- Unobtrusive JavaScript
- Using jQuery to Retrieve JSON via AJAX
- Fundamentals of JavaScript Closures
- Series Wrap-Up