From the course: JavaScript for Web Designers

Web designers need JavaScript - JavaScript Tutorial

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Web designers need JavaScript

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- Hi, I'm Joe Chellman, and welcome to JavaScript for Web Designers. The web designer's job is to use all of the tools at our disposal to make the best, most engaging and useable websites and apps we can manage. By making JavaScript a key part of our toolboxes, the pallet of experiences we can create online becomes almost limitless. JavaScript is the programming language of the web, and becoming comfortable with it will allow you to do things with your websites that you just couldn't do otherwise. In this course I'll introduce you to the basics of working with JavaScript both in a browser and text editor. I'll also introduce you to some of the terminology you'll need to understand what's going on. Then I'll show you how to use JavaScript to work with a shopping cart, responding to user's choices, checking for errors, and making a calculation. Next we'll look at how to work with time, enhancing an event page with a live calendar and clock. We'll make use of the Bing Maps API and you'll see how easy it is to add interactive content to a website using the power of an external service. And finally we'll use JavaScript to interact with a small restful API to solve a small but genuine pain point many people experience filling out web forms. As a web designer you might not have written much of your own JavaScript. Maybe it's even seemed a little intimidating in the past. Working through these examples, you'll start to see that working with JavaScript in modern web browsers can be quite painless, maybe even enjoyable. Let's get started.

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