Webmaster - Javascript

• Performing arithmetic
• Comparison and local operations
• Working with numbers
• Working with strings

• Introduction to events and event handlers
• Browser window event handlers
• Event listeners
• Form event handlers
• Mouse event handlers
• Keyboard event handlers
• HTML5 event handlers

• Introducing document object model objects
• JavaScript functions
• Working with arrays
• Controlling the flow
• Let’s play hide and seek – build your first interactive game
• Looping the loop

• The top-level window object
• The document object
• Forms objects
• Working with window objects
• Timer objects
• Document Interaction

• Understanding and dealing with errors
• The JavaScript console
• Using breakpoints
• Handling exceptions
• Debugging hints and common errors
• A guide to good scripting
• Graphic design considerations

• Designing the game
• Building the HTML framework
• Adding style with CSS
• Populating the grid with random mines
• Adding skill levels and sound effects
• Tracking hits and misses
• Testing and quality assurance

• Introducing the HTML5 JavaScript APIs
• The drag and drop API
• The web storage API
• The messaging API
• The history API
• The geo-location API
• Google maps
• The canvas API

• What is jQuery?
• Finding and working with elements
• Creating a simple jQuery App
• Handling events with jQuery
• Effects and animation methods
• Working with jQuery form elements
• Dimension and positioning methods
• The jQuery user interface

• Introducing AJAX
• JavaScript Object Notion (JSON)
• Server side JavaScript
• Function closure explained
• What are prototypes?
• Regular expressions and recursion
• Working with cookies
• Adding and removing event listeners

• Game overview
• Creating the game framework with HTML and CSS
• Planning the JavaScript functions
• Controlling the game
• Providing a scoreboard to show current status
• Generate random batting stroked and bowling appeals
• A function to update status
• Testing and quality assurance

You will be assessed on coursework which is detailed in the course materials. The coursework consists of individual web pages and a complete final website. Your work can be sent back to your course tutor by email or by post.

You will have up to a full year to complete this course, which is plenty of time to be able to study at your own pace. This course should take you approximately 200 hours self-study time.

You will study this course through distance learning, which means you can learn at a time and place to suit you. You will study this course online and work will be submitted to your course tutor by email or post. You will receive a year’s full tutor support by email, so help is only a click away!

Approximately 200 hours.

On successful completion of this course students will receive a Webmaster – Javascript Diploma with comprehensive feedback and, providing the assignments have been completed to the required standards, students will also receive a Level 4 Open Awards Quality Endorsed Unit Course Certificate with 9 Open Awards Credits.

The course measurable learning outcomes have been benchmarked at Level 4 (using Ofqual’s Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) level descriptors) to allow you to consider the depth of study, difficulty, and level of achievement involved.