20480 - Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 in Visual Studio 2012

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Course Overview

Course Length: 5 days

Description:  This course provides an introduction to HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. This course helps students gain basic HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript programming skills. This course is an entry point into both the Web application and Windows Store apps training paths. The course focuses on using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript to implement programming logic, define and use variables, perform looping and branching, develop user interfaces, capture and validate user input, store data, and create well-structured application. The lab scenarios in this course are selected to support and demonstrate the structure of various application scenarios. They are intended to focus on the principles and coding components/structures that are used to establish an HTML5 software application. This course uses Visual Studio 2012, running on Windows 8.

Audience: This course is intended for professional developers who have 6-12 months of programming experience and who are interested in developing applications using HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (either Windows Store apps for Windows 8 or web applications).  This course is intended for students who have the following experience:

  • 1 – 3 months experience creating Web applications, including writing simple JavaScript code
  • 1 month experience creating Windows client applications
  • 1 month of experience using Visual Studio 2010 or 2012
 This course is not intended for developers with three or more months of HTML5 coding experience.
Students choosing to attend this course without a developer background should pay special attention to the training prerequisites. Developers who have more than 5 years programming experience may find that portions of this training are fundamental in nature when presenting the syntax associated with certain programming tasks.
Individuals who are interested in taking exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3, can also attend this course.

Prerequisites:  Before attending this course, students must have at least three months of professional development experience. In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should have a combination of practical and conceptual knowledge related to HTML5 programming. This includes the following prerequisites:

  • Understand the basic HTML document structure:
  • How to use HTML tags to display text content.
  • How to use HTML tags to display graphics.
  • How to use HTML APIs.
  • Understand how to style common HTML elements using CSS, including:
  • How to separate presentation from content
  • How to manage content flow.
  • How to control the position of individual elements.
  • How to implement basic CSS styling.
  • Understand how to write JavaScript code to add functionality to a web page:
  • How o create and use variables
  • How to use:
  • relational operators to test the relationship between two variables or expressions
  • logical operators to combine expressions that contain relational operators
  • arithmetic operators to perform arithmetic calculations involving one or more variables
  • How to control the program flow by using if … else statements.
  • How to implement iterations by using loops.
  • How to write simple functions.

What You're Going To Learn

  • Learn how to use Visual Studio 2012 to create and run a Web application.
  • Learn the new features of HTML5, and create and style HTML5 pages.
  • Learn to add interactivity to an HTML5 page by using JavaScript.
  • Learn to create HTML5 forms by using different input types, and validate user input by using HTML5 attributes and JavaScript code.
  • Learn to send and receive data to and from a remote data source by using XMLHTTPRequest objects and jQuery AJAX operations.
  • Learn to style HTML5 pages by using CSS3.
  • Learn to create well-structured and easily-maintainable JavaScript code.
  • Learn to use common HTML5 APIs in interactive Web applications.
  • Learn to create Web applications that support offline operations.
  • Learn to create HTML5 Web pages that can adapt to different devices and form factors.
  • Learn to add advanced graphics to an HTML5 page by using Canvas elements, and by using and Scalable Vector Graphics.
  • Learn to enhance the user experience by adding animations to an HTML5 page.
  • Learn to use Web Sockets to send and receive data between a Web application and a server.
  • Learn to improve the responsiveness of a Web application that performs long-running operations by using Web Worker processes.

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Course Outline

Overview of HTML and CSS

  • Overview of HTML
  • Overview of CSS
  • Creating a Web Application by Using Visual Studio 2012
  • Lab: Exploring the Contoso Conference Application
  • Walkthrough of the Contoso Conference Application
  • Examining and Modifying the Contoso Conference Application

Creating and Styling HTML5 Pages

  • Creating an HTML5 Page
  • Styling an HTML5 Page
  • Lab: Creating and Styling HTML5 Pages
  • Creating HTML5 Pages
  • Styling HTML5 Pages

Introduction to JavaScript

  • Overview of JavaScript Syntax
  • Programming the HTML DOM with JavaScript
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Lab: Displaying Data and Handling Events by Using JavaScript
  • Displaying Data Programmatically
  • Handling Events

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