Course description:
In this workshop, you'll learn ways you can use data in your webpages, using AJAX to pull in JSON formatted data dynamically from servers. This is a great follow-up workshop for those who have attended our JS301: Intro to jQuery workshop.
The workshop will be a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises in pairs, and will be taught by Hanah Yendler, Front End Developer at SEPHORA, and Claire Bendersky, Solutions Engineers at MovableInk.
Attendees should be comfortable with HTML/CSS fundamentals and JavaScript fundamentals (arrays, conditionals, loops, functions). Attendees should also have learned the DOM API and jQuery. That means that you either attended our HTML 101 workshop, JS 101 workshop, JS for the Web workshop, and jQuery workshop, or that you learned those concepts online.
You can review them online at a few places:
• HTML/CSS: <a href="https://khanacademy.org/html-css">Khan Academy's HTML/CSS course, Codecademy's HTML/CSS course, GDI SF HTML/CSS slides
• JS: Khan Academy's Intro to JS course, Codecademy's JS course, GDI SF JS slides
• DOM API: Khan Academy's "Making Webpages Interactive" course, GDI SF "Making Webpages Interactive" slides
• jQuery: Codecademy's jQuery course, GDI SF jQuery slides
• Your laptop (Mac, PC, or Linux are all okay. If you don't have one of those, please let us know in advance) and charger.
• A modern web browser - either Chrome or Firefox.
• A text editor - we recommend Sublime Text 2 (free; available for Mac, PC, or Linux) or Atom (also free; available for Mac, PC, or Linux).
No laptop? No problem. We have 2 Chromebooks available to borrow. Message the teachers if you are interested.
<a href="https://github.com/gdisf/teaching-materials/blob/master/ajax/README.md#topics-covered"> Topics covered:
• Storing data as JSON
• Turning JSON data into DOM nodes
• Using AJAX to pull in JSON
Slides:
http://www.teaching-materials.org/ajax/
Payment:
Payment is required to attend. If you'd like to attend but cannot afford the cost, click here to request a scholarship. Due to the number of applications, only the scholarship recipients will receive an email a few days before the workshop. Thank you for your understanding!
Food will not be provided.
