jQuery: Enhancing Web Development Class

I created a class focusing on jQuery class called jQuery: Enhancing Web Development at LVSOnline.com. This class is geared for web designers to help and learnand use jQuery to enhance existing web pages as well as web developers to teach them how to use a very popular and powerful JavaScript library.

If you’ve spent any time at all trying to add dynamic functionality to your pages, you’ve found that you’re constantly following a pattern of selecting an element or group of elements and operating upon those elements in some fashion. You could be hiding or revealing the elements, adding a CSS class to them, animating them, or modifying their attributes.

Using raw JavaScript can result in dozens of lines of code for each of these tasks. The creators of jQuery specifically created the library to make common tasks trivial.

The class will be teaching not only how to use the many functions and properties of API, but practical examples you can use right away.

The class is only $30 and there are no other materials or software needed to purchase.

Topics covered:

Week 1: jQuery Overview; using $(), how selectors work
Week 2: Using filters, traversing the document, statement chaining
Week 3: Manipulating page content, working with CSS content
Week 4: Events: bind() and unbind(), helper functions, event object
Week 5: UI Library: Widgets, Interaction and Effects
Week 6: jQuery Project: Adding jQuery to an existing website

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

When Does Class Start?

The class runs five times a year for six weeks in January, March, May, August and October. To learn more view the course description page and contact me to find out the exact date on when you can register.