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PRG/282

Windows Application Development Using HTML5 and JavaScript 2

3 credits

Total credits

5 weeks

Course length

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Course level: Undergraduate

This course covers developing web applications using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and JavaScript®. This includes the use of different, advanced JavaScript® APIs; such as Drag-and-Drop API, Web Storage API, Geolocation API, and the Web Socket API.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

What you'll learn

Course skills and outcomes

  • Instantiate JavaScript® objects and call methods on those objects.
  • Describe the purpose of the “this” keyword and identify the syntax necessary to refer to an object using the “this” keyword.
  • Define “variable” and “object scope,” and describe the result of trying to instantiate an object that is out of scope.
  • Identify and describe Geolocation API calls.

  • Explain the business benefit of apps that handle exceptions.
  • Code a web app that handles a JavaScript® exception.
  • Incorporate JavaScript® logic at multiple points in an HTML file.

  • Define “iteration,” and describe at least two business reasons programmers need to be able to iterate over collections of data.
  • Code a web app that defines an array, populates it with objects, and then uses iteration to sort those objects.

  • Describe the purpose and business benefit of a JavaScript® callback.
  • Describe the purpose and business benefit of a web worker.
  • Code a web app that includes both a JavaScript® callback and a web worker.

  • Describe the role that JSON plays in sending and receiving simple, textual web app data.
  • Explain the term AJAX, and describe the role AJAX plays in sending and receiving web app data.
  • Code a web app that serializes data using a jQuery® method and sends the serialized data, along with JSON-described data, to a web server using an XMLHttpRequest object.
  • Code a web app that receives both JSON-described and serialized data from a web server and deserializes the serialized data using a jQuery® method.

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We’ve been accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org) for more than 40 years.

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Learn from instructors who bring an average of 25 years of working experience to the classroom.

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Our tuition and fees are competitive and fixed. Also, check to see if your employer will cover you for this course.

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