Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course the student:
masters JavaScript and can use some of the most important libraries in developing browser user interfaces
can implement dynamic and responsive browser user interfaces that are usable in variety of devices
masters AJAX technology and JSON data-interchange format
can use efficient tools in browser scripting

Content

JavaScript
jQuery
Doing asynchronous requests with AJAX
JSON data-interchange format
Tools for developing browser interfaces
Implementing a small scale dynamic and responsive browser user interface

Materials

The course books (Selected parts)
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Eloquent JavaScript
Marijn Haverbeke
No Starch Press; 3 edition (December 4, 2018)
Available on the Net: http://eloquentjavascript.net
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Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
5th Edition
Matt Frisbie
Published by Wrox
Available in ProQuest EBook Central
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Learning React : Modern Patterns for Developing React Apps
2nd edition
Alex Banks and Eve Porcello
Available in ProQuest EBook Central
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Only selected chapters will be read.

Content scheduling

Contents

I. JavaScript (Lectures and personal exercises)

- Basics
- Strings
- Objects, destructuring
- Arrays, array operations
- Programming functions
- Error handling
- DOM, event handling
- Modules
- Asynchronous programming
- Tools

II. React (Lectures and a teamwork)

- Basics
- JSX
- Components
- Modularization
- Tools
- Managing state
- Hooks

III. Teamwork: A simple single page web application with React (without backend)

7 personal JavaScript exercises.
React-based Teamwork.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

7 personal assignments: 70 points
The group project work: 30 points.

The assignments must be returned by the deadline to get the points.The assignments returned after the deadline will give you only half of the points.

The student must get at least 30 points from the assignments and 10 points from the group work to pass the course.

The grading scale (points b -> grade):

40 points -> 1
55 points -> 2
70 points -> 3
80 points -> 4
90 points -> 5