By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Create scripts that execute on multiple browsers/platforms such as Mozilla and Internet Explorer on both the PC and Macintosh environments in individual projects.
• Use client side technologies to manipulate the document object model (DOM) to create interactivity and navigation, dynamically build page elements, and communicate with plug-in technologies in individual projects.
• Write scripts for technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, SVG, SMIL, and proprietary scripting languages to gain familiarity with current practices and future developments in web client side scripting. This will be assessed in in-class activities.
• Demonstrate the use of vendor specific technologies to overcome the limitations of general purpose scripting languages in individual projects.
• Demonstrate basic proficiency by completing a practical hands-on examination to create any of the following:

1. Interactive and/or dynamic web pages (that could utilize JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, SVG, SMIL, or other current client side technology).
2. Browser viewable application built upon plug-in technology.

• JavaScript
• Review of DOM
• window, document, and event objects
• Browser comparisons
• Strategies for multiple deployment
• Cookie Review and alternatives
• Animation
• Text File Parsing
• Dynamic Menus
• Repositioning Elements for Browser Correction
• Server Communication with XML (or without)
• Emerging client-side technologies

1. XML-SVG-MathML
2. LocalStorage
3. WebWorkers
4. Tags
5. Animation and interaction

• JavaScript Libraries (currently jQuery)

1. Custom technologies and appropriate usage.
2. Using the API to build animations, validation, dynamic creation, etc.
3. Extending the core lib with plugins.
4. Writing your own plugin(s)?

The following required texts will be available at the bookstore, or via online booksellers such as amazon.com and bn.com: JavaScript The Definitive Guide, 5th ed, Flanagan, O'Reilly and Associates, ISBN: 0596101996 - (and yes, you MUST have the 5th edition) More texts and/or online readings may be assigned as we discuss what we will do with the second half of the course In addition to the text(s), online readings might be assigned in class and linked from this page. You should purchase at least one thumb drive to store your work on. I recommend two in case you have problems with the first.

The readings for each week should be completed before that week begins, so that you're prepared to work with examples and exercises, and to ask questions.

Part I: JavaScript : Weeks 1 - 4

• Week 1 - Javascript Basics plus Arrays and Functions
• Week 2a - Window and Cookies
• Week 2b - Document and Forms
• Week 3a - DOM
• Week 3b - DHTML and Events
• Week 4a - DHTML (Menus)
• Week 5a - AJAX

Part II: Future Considerations: Weeks 5-6

SVG and the DOM

• SVG objects
• Animation with SMIL
• Animation with JS
• The Standards
• Tutorials and Examples

Part III: Libraries: Week 7 - 10

jQuery

Your grade will be based on your individual assignments and a final practical. It is important to understand that if you complete all the requirements for an assignment that entitles you to a grade of “B” (i.e. satisfactory work"). To receive an A for an assignment, you must go beyond the basic requirements, and demonstrate creativity, initiative, and excellence--the grade of A is intended for work that is superior, rather than average. Assignments submitted after the due date/time, without prior approval from me, will lose one full letter grade for each day that they are late. If you know that a situation will prevent you from turning something in, contact me in advance of the deadline to make alternate arrangements. If you wish to dispute your final course grade, you must do so before the end of the quarter following this one; otherwise documentation of your work may not be available.

Last Day to Drop the Class: For this quarter, you can drop the class on or before last day of the first week. After that date, you must withdraw from the course, which will show on your transcript as a W.

Last Day to Withdraw: The deadline for withdrawing from a course with a W grade is the end of the 8th week of the quarter. Forms may be obtained from the IT office, and must be signed by your instructor. Completed forms should be returned to the IT office no later than the last day of the 8th week. After that date, a grade will be assigned based on the work that you have submitted.

"Incomplete" Grades: You may request an incomplete, or "I" grade, only in cases where exceptional conditions beyond your control, such as accidents, severe illness, family problems, etc., have kept you from completing the course. You must alert us to these circumstances as soon as possible--telling your instructor in November that you were sick in September is not acceptable. If your request for an incomplete is granted, you must complete the work for the course within the time limits set by the instructor. The maximum time is two (2) academic quarters. Unfinished "I" grades automatically become "F". Incomplete grades are not given to students who have simply fallen behind in their work.

It is important that you understand what constitutes academic dishonesty, and what the penalty associated with it is.

Read this Policy carefully. Please note, in particular, the definitions of cheating and collusion. There is a fine line between asking for help from a classmate in solving a technical problem and using their work as your own. Do not cross that line.

Similarly, while it is fine to get ideas from web sites you must credit your source(s). If you violate the academic dishonesty policy, then you will fail the course. It is just not worth it.