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CIMW 160 JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap and AJAX
CIS 460NC Noncredit tuition-free Version
Fall 2024 - 9/16/24 to 12/13/2024

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Course will support both textbook versions, 6th previous and current 7th version. Assignment pages will be updated with 7th edition assignnments, the first three assignment don't require the textbook.
If you want a hard bound version of the text book, the 6th edition, has lots of cheap options below.

JavaScript Web Warriors Sixth Edition (Rental E-book $51 - vitasource has lifetme online access by Sasha Vodnik and Don Gosselin, Course Technology Incorporated, 2015, ISBN 1305078446 - Companion Site -Note Recommended: Valor Books($7 Used) -- First 2 Chapters on Google books.

Seventh Edition $51/6 Months, . Amazon $41.99, VitalSource $44, - Valore semester rental $36, - Mind Tap for $137-$236. mind tap includes flash cards and notes.

  • ISBN-10: 035763800X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0357638002
    When the first assignment, the uses the textbook occurs, the assignment does includes links to the textbook datafiles.

Class Info

CIMW140 Introduction to CSS Offered Evey Spring

Course covers CSS, CSS2, CSS3, and RWD (Responsive Web Design) . The best way to learn CSS3 and RWD is too first master the basics of CSS and CSS2; Besides mastering the basics of CSS/CSS2, effective responsive Web page design is highly contingent on developing a good bulletproof sound Web page architecture. Class assignments and projects revolve around using a correctly structured Web page. Once a Web page is correctly structured, one can then apply RWD techniques to produce a single Web page or Web application that is responsive to all forms of viewing devices, i.e., PCs, smart phones, tables and hard copies.

Each class session is divided up into teaching CSS basics, analyzing previous design, correctly structuring a Web page and RWD. Class also has videos on using the advance features of Firefox Web developer add-on tools. Chrome has built in Web developer add-on tools.

When CSS first came out it had limited browser support. CSS3 (third level or generation of CSS) was formerly released Q1/2012, within 6 months all browsers including even IE10 supported CSS3.

CIMW 160 Java Script/jQuery/Bootstrap - AJAX

Offered Every Fall

Java Script is the predominant client side scripting language. All modern day browser include Java Script engines. In fact, many browser actually compile Java Script into an executable format.

jQuery is a Java-script framework. A framework is a collection of previously written Java-script code that makes it easy, to create Web pages. When dealing with Web pages all Web developers have a similar set of requirement, jQuery is very good at streamlining these requirements. In jQuery has become the most used Java-script framework.

This assignment page implements a jQuery User Interface accordion widget. Class covers jQuery selectors, events, UI (user interface) library and AJAX.

Class also covers Bootstrap a popular RWD framework and AJAX (Asynchronous Java-script and XML). AJAX has become the de facto standard for sending XML formatted data to a Web Page, without having to reload the entire page.