JavaScript (Advanced) Training Course

Part 1-Regular expressions 

This section covers Regular Expressions, what they are, their syntax and how they are used.

What is a regular expression
Properties and methods
Modifiers
Patterns
Special characters

Part 2-Working with constrained devices 

This section looks at some of the key areas that limit what a webpage can do, what these limitations are, what they apply to and how you can develop JavaScript code to handle these potential problems.

Introduction
TV - areas for consideration
Mobile - areas for consideration
Optimise with …
Web workers
Remove unused object properties or DOM elements
Yahoo's 35 rules

Part 3-SE best practices 

Software engineering best practice for JavaScript code, simple things that can be done now plus areas for further study.

Introduction
HTML comments
Common sense techniques
Anti-patterns
Security
Accessibility
Robustness
Common SE techniques and methodologies

Part 4-Third party frameworks & libraries 

Script management and structure - requireJS

Server side - node.js
Class() - simple inheritance as defined by John Resig
Client side - jQuery

Part 5-Common design patterns

Design patterns have been used for a long time in many development languages to provide standards and structure.  JavaScript now has a set of stable, reliable coding patterns that are being adopted by the JavaScript community.

Introduction
Patterns in JavaScript

        Single var pattern
        Literal syntax pattern
        Self-invoking constructor pattern

Singleton
Module
Memoisation
Decorator
Observer

Part 6-New technologies 

An introduction into the technologies that are currently being trialled for use; this section gives several areas that may be further explored by the attendees.

Web sockets
Canvas
Animation
WebGL

Examples and Exercises

There are numerous (standards compliant) examples available for this course that illustrate the concepts covered.

In addition to the examples there are practical exercises in each section that allow attendees to explore and consolidate their knowledge of the concept.  Further topics are given for future study that relate to the topics covered. 

Some of the exercises are done as team work, the remainder are done on an individual basis with the individual choosing the level of complexity they want to code within the exercise parameters.