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Research and Markets: jQuery Fundamentals Training

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jmn2rq/jquery) has announced the addition of the "jQuery Fundamentals Training" training to their offering.

jQuery is fast becoming a must-have skill for front-end developers. The purpose of this jQuery training course is to provide an overview of the jQuery JavaScript library. When you're done with this jQuery training course, you will be able to complete basic tasks using jQuery, and you will have a solid basis from which to continue your learning.

This class is hands-on and interactive, with exercises, presentations and readings to ensure students stay engaged and learn the material presented.

Approximately 13 hours of training.

Key Topics Covered:

JavaScript Basics

- Syntax Basics

- Operators

- Operations on Numbers and Strings

- Logical Operators

- Comparison Operators

- Conditional Code

- Truthy and Falsy Things

- Conditional Variable Assignment with the Ternary Operator

- Switch Statements

- Loops

- The while Loop

- Reserved Words

- Arrays

- Objects

- Functions

- Testing Type

- Scope

- Closures

jQuery Basic Concepts

- $(document).ready()

- Selecting Elements

- Working with Selections

- Chaining

- CSS, Styling, and Dimensions

- Attributes

- Traversing

- Manipulating Elements

- Manipulating Attributes

jQuery Core

- $ vs $()

- Utility Methods

- Checking Types

- Data Methods

- Feature and Browser Detection

- Avoiding Conflicts with Other Libraries

Events

- Connecting Events to Elements

- Inside the Event Handling Function

- Triggering Event Handlers

- Increasing Performance with Event Delegation

- Event Helpers

Effects

- Built-in Effects

- Custom Effects with $.fn.animate

- Managing Effects

Ajax

- Key Concepts

- jQuery's Ajax-related Methods

- $.fn.load

- Ajax and Forms

- Working with JSONP

- Ajax Events

Plugins

- How to Create a Basic Plugin

- Finding and Evaluating Plugins

- Writing Plugins

- Writing Stateful Plugins with the jQuery UI Widget Factory

Best Performance Practices

- Cache Length during Loops

- Append New Content outside of a Loop

- Keep Things DRY

- Beware Anonymous Functions

- Optimize Selectors

- Use Event Delegation

- Detach Elements to Work with Them

- Use Stylesheets for Changing CSS on Many Elements

- Use $.data Instead of $.fn.data

- Don't Act on Absent Elements

- Variable Definition

- Conditionals

- Don't Treat jQuery as a Black Box

Code Organization

- Key Concepts

- Encapsulation

- Managing Dependencies

Custom Events

- About Custom Events

- Conclusion

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jmn2rq/jquery

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