jQuery and AJAX for Beginners - The Definitive Guide (2014)
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Description
Websites and HTML5 apps need to be interactive, dynamic and smooth to the end user.
jQuery is the world’s most used JavaScript library to create rich web applications that just feel natural to use. In this comprehensive course you’ll learn how to use jQuery to work with the DOM, use events, effects and animations, AJAX, JSON and to create interactive AJAX forms.
This course is 100% jQuery 2.x compliant!
This course is taught by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder of ZENVA and web application developer. Pablo has been using jQuery since 2007. More than 20,000 students are learning how to code with our courses, in particular our Programming for Entrepreneurs course series. This course builds on our previous HTML and JavaScript free courses and takes you to the next step, which is to make your website or HTML5 interactive and dynamic.
Some of the things you will learn in this course:
- When to use jQuery 1.x or 2.x.
- CSS selectors and DOM traversing functions in depth to find any element you want.
- DOM manipulation to add or remove custom HTML content anywhere, whenever you decide.
- Working with events to create interactive sites.
- Listen to changes in select dropdowns and checkboxes.
- jQuery animations and effects. Slide, fade, show, hide.
- AJAX to load dynamic HTML from the server.
- Working with JSON from the server.
- Interactive forms that display extra fields according to the values of other fields.
- AJAX form submission the easy way.
- Dealing with cache issues in AJAX requests.
- Learn jQuery in a 2.x compliant manner.
Who this course is for:
- Web developers of all backgrounds, including beginners, who want to update their skills and learn jQuery from scratch
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
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- 642,476 Students
- 10 Courses
Trusted by over 1 million learners and developers, Zenva provides world-class training on in-demand programming skills covering game creation, software development, AI virtual reality and web development.
Our e-learning platform Zenva Academy is the leading place to upskill, learn and gain key tech skills for the innovation economy through self-paced online courses. Our curriculum is organized about Mini-Degrees™ which cover a wide range of technical subjects and include video, interactive quizzes and project files for enhanced learning.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 21,025 Reviews
- 639,596 Students
- 10 Courses
Certified game developer and Founder of ZENVA - the world's leading platform to learn game making, VR, machine learning and full-stack programming. Since 2012, Pablo has been developing professional-grade courses that have helped over 1 million people gain valuable skills.
Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific Region, and has run live programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore.
Pablo holds a Master in Information Technology (Management) degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile.