Courses

Enter a term to search on in the box below.

JavaScript for Programmers approaches JavaScript as a programming language. To build today's modern web applications, you need to know more than how to create an "on click" handler or paste some sample jquery code. Understanding the fundamentals of the language and how to create object-oriented code will allow you to access to the power of JavaScript. In this class, you'll use Jasmine, a behavior driven development framework, as a learning tool to work through exercises that solidify the concepts through hands-on experience with jasmine JavaScript. After taking this course, you will have practical experience with JavaScript language fundamentals. You will have a solid understanding of the language and a foundation in best practice development for using Jasmine JavaScript Testing framework with your JavaScript code.

course level image
web image
vendor image
cost range image
This VTC course will provide an overview of one of the cornerstone technologies involved in many web 2.0 applications - JavaScript Libraries. This course gives a basic foundation on how to utilize many commonly used elements. The overview is facilitated by providing information on Prototype Javascript Framework and Scriptaculous, the Dojo Toolkit, Yahoo User Interface Library, and the jQuery Javascript Library, providing experience using those libraries by creating projects that leverage aspects of those individual libraries. James Street shows just how easy it is to get started using Ajax, animation, and more!
course level image
web image
vendor image
subscription image

This project-based course will involve building a real web application using BackboneJS, a framework designed to help you organize code in the browser and manage complex behaviours. We'll be using a simple key/value store, MongoDB and a very lightweight web backend (Ruby Sinatra). This is an advanced video series and it assumes an understanding of jQuery, and server side web development. The second video in the series touches on how to get going quickly.

course level image
web image
vendor image
cost range image

In this course, author Valerie Sutton shares the latest techniques to find jobs efficiently and effectively. This course teaches you how to develop your profile and brand, seek advertised and unadvertised positions, network successfully to broaden your circle, and work with recruiting professionals. Valerie includes strategies for both the online and offline worlds. Along the way, discover smart strategies to match your interests with your search and manage your time in order to maximize results.

course level image
business image
vendor image
subscription image

In this course, Jen Kramer shows how to use Joomla! to build a website from scratch—all without a single line of code. Discover how to create and organize content, add menus and sidebars, change the look of the site with templates, control who creates and edits content, and much more. The course also shows you how to evaluate the quality of extensions, plugins, and templates and how to download and install them. Finally, Jen emphasizes the importance of backing up your Joomla! site, and explains how to create and store those backups.

course level image
web image
vendor image
subscription image

How have humans protected their secret messages through history? Apply probability to solve an age old problem.

course level image
math image
vendor image
cost range image

We've always been communicating.... as we moved from signal fires, to alphabets & electricity the problems remained the same.

course level image
math image
vendor image
cost range image
jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, providing powerful functionality for everything from animation and interactivity to data-handling with JSON and AJAX. jQuery has set the standard to which all other JavaScript frameworks are compared. This VTC course will take you from the basics all the way through jQuery's most advanced features. You will create your own code through dozens of projects and even learn to create your own jQuery plugins.
course level image
web image
vendor image
subscription image

In jQuery Essential Training, Microsoft professional Joe Marini presents the power of the jQuery library, an open-source JavaScript project that greatly simplifies the process of adding advanced functionality to web sites. Joe teaches how to use these new features to build pages that work across browsers with the functionality that today's users (and clients) are looking for, from complex animation effects to dynamic page formatting. Joe pulls all of this together, showing how the jQuery UI plug-in can expand and streamline the capability of jQuery, and then integrating jQuery design tools into a complete sample web site. Exercise files accompany the course.

course level image
web image
vendor image
subscription image

Pages