Guest Lecture: JavaScript, Ajax & DOM Manipulation

Zach has asked me to give a JavaScript guest lecture in his Web Programming class. We’ll cover: JS basics, node manipulation, DOM traversal, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, and myPlymouth implementations of those topics. Here are the slides (get the .ppt here):

A few resources that are mentioned:

Note: this is an updated talk on the workshop I led two years ago

Technology

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CSS Selector Browser Support

As many web developers know, CSS support is highly varied amongst browsers. I often find myself hunting for which selectors are more heavily supported. As such, I thought I’d post a direct link to a quality resource here so I wouldn’t have to hunt anywhere besides on BorkWeb.
Here’s some decent resources:

CSS selector and [...]


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Art, Games, & Fun

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Art: Dark Jedi

I’ve had some free time recently so decided to whip out my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and see what I could drum up. I had a few commissioned drawings waiting on the wings - all three were character drawings of members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. As usual I have uploaded them to [...]


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Randomness

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Fox: Hidden Problems In The McCain/Palin Campaign

All I can say is: Thank GOD.


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