jQuery and AJAX for Beginners - The Definitive Guide (2014)

Learn to create dynamic websites with jQuery. Enhance interactivity, use AJAX and JSON, and master web development skills with our comprehensive course.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about using jQuery to make your websites fun and interactive. You'll dive into the world of dynamic web applications, learning how to manipulate HTML, handle events, and create awesome effects like fades and slides. Perfect for taking your web skills to the next level!

Key Points

  • Make dynamic websites using jQuery
  • Learn about the DOM, events, and animations
  • Master AJAX and JSON for smooth interactions
  • Create interactive forms with custom fields
  • Understand jQuery 2.x compliance

Learning Outcomes

  • Manipulate HTML content dynamically on your website
  • Create interactive events and effects with ease
  • Load data from servers using AJAX
  • Build smooth, user-friendly forms
  • Understand and apply jQuery efficiently in your projects

About This Course

Make dynamic websites using the jQuery JavaScript library

Websites and HTML5 apps need to be interactive, dynamic and smooth to the end user.

jQuery is the world’s most used JavaScript library to create rich web applications that just feel natural to use. In this comprehensive course you’ll learn how to use jQuery to work with the DOM, use events, effects and animations, AJAX, JSON and to create interactive AJAX forms.

This course is 100% jQuery 2.x compliant!

This course is taught by Pablo Farias Navarro, founder of ZENVA and web application developer. Pablo has been using jQuery since 2007. More than 20,000 students are learning how to code with our courses, in particular our Programming for Entrepreneurs course series. This course builds on our previous HTML and JavaScript free courses and takes you to the next step, which is to make your website or HTML5 interactive and dynamic.

Some of the things you will learn in this course:

  • When to use jQuery 1.x or 2.x.

  • CSS selectors and DOM traversing functions in depth to find any element you want.

  • DOM manipulation to add or remove custom HTML content anywhere, whenever you decide.

  • Working with events to create interactive sites.

  • Listen to changes in select dropdowns and checkboxes.

  • jQuery animations and effects. Slide, fade, show, hide.

  • AJAX to load dynamic HTML from the server.

  • Working with JSON from the server.

  • Interactive forms that display extra fields according to the values of other fields.

  • AJAX form submission the easy way.

  • Dealing with cache issues in AJAX requests.

  • Learn jQuery in a 2.x compliant manner.

  • Master the fundamentals of the jQuery library

  • Learn AJAX programming

Instructors

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Pablo Farias

Certified game developer and Founder of ZENVA - the world's leading platform to learn game making, VR, machine learning and full-stack programming. Since 2012, Pablo has been developing professional-grade courses that have helped over 1 million people gain valuable skills.Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific Region, and has run live programming workshops in...

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Zenva Academy

Trusted by over 1 million learners and developers, Zenva provides world-class training on in-demand programming skills covering game creation, software development, AI virtual reality and web development.Our e-learning platform Zenva Academy is the leading place to upskill, learn and gain key tech skills for the innovation economy through self-paced online courses. Our curriculum is organized about Mini-Degrees™ which cover a...

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4.9 course rating
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Riyaad T.
5.0
8 months ago

Good stuff ex elle t presenter

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Bob C.
5.0
10 months ago

This is a very good intro to jQuery ...

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Alemayehu A. W.
5.0
10 months ago

good

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Fionn R.
5.0
10 months ago

This was a quick win with very good examples which anyone can build on.

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ui-avatar of Nour Ali Hassan
Nour A. H.
5.0
1 year ago

awesome course

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ui-avatar of Sobirov Samandar
Sobirov S.
5.0
1 year ago

very good )

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ui-avatar of Vaibhav Singh
Vaibhav S.
4.0
1 year ago

Through this course, I get to learn new things. Now my weakness becomes my strength.

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ui-avatar of V.G.S.T.M Samarasinghe
V.g.s.t.m S.
4.5
2 years ago

The structure is straightforward to understand but some parts are a little bit complicated for understanding as a beginner.

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Paul L.
4.5
2 years ago

Good course. Good pace to learn some commonly used jQuery relatively quickly. Good for beginners

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David C.
3.5
3 years ago

Could have delved more into actual JQuery documentation, to ensure that the students understood each step they were taking. Also, I had trouble setting up my localhost and the course offered no help with that.

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