COMP2041 JavaScript Course Outline

Three key lessons and a bunch of resources to help you become a better programmer.

Topics

• Language Context, Syntax, Types, Objects, and thinking functionally
  • Language background, design
  • Getting up to speed as quickly as possible
• The Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Brief understanding of the DOM
  • Manipulating the DOM in the browser
• Async Programming, AJAX
  • Understanding the event loop, single-threaded nature
  • Dealing with async challenges

Resources

• Tutorials
• Labs
• Lecture Content
• Assignment
• Additional Resources

Disclaimer:

Learning any programming language in three weeks is impossible, and JavaScript is no exception. While the below attempts to provide a fairly comprehensive overview, there is lots of detail and depth left out to aid you to ‘get going’ faster. This comes at a cost!