Introduction to JavaScript

• Generating text, with selected style and explicite line breaks
• Creating alerts and interactive dialogs/prompts
• Numeric data processing
• Examples of relational operators
• Loops while and initializing values in a dialog
• Conditional statement if ... else ...
• Examples of using arithmetic operations
• Loops while, for and do ... while and escaping them with instructions break and continue (also with nested loops: break and continue)
• Examples: sum and compound interest
• Choice instruction switch
• Logic operators
• Defining new functions: squaring a number and finding the maximum of three numbers
• Generating pseudo-random numbers, rolling a dice, a simple random game and random picture selection on a page
• Global and local variables
• An example of a recursive function
• Arrays: declaration, initialization, summing, applications: rolling a dice and random pictures
• Arrays and functions
• Sorting array data
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• An example of an interactive questionnaire
• Character data, searching in text strings and tokenizing text
• Generating xHTML code text
• Date and time functions
• Creating dynamic child windows
• Using cookies
• An example of a multi-window application
• DOM (Document Object Model)
• Using DOM: dynamic style creation, link lists, changeable background color, dynamic image loading
• Handling events
• Event onLoad
• Interactive drawing
• Events onMouseOver/onMouseOut
• Events onFocus/onBlur
• Events onSubmit/onReset
• Event propagation mechanism