Digital Bootcamp: Programming with Javascript - Summer 2016

Goldsmiths, known for its excellence in creative and cultural arts, humanities and social sciences, is launching an exciting range of adult education and short training courses, giving busy people the chance to work towards new opportunities and a more fulfilling future. We are presenting a diverse, new range of evening and weekend courses, taught by the same experts that teach our ground-breaking degree programmes. This is a chance for you to get a taste of the challenging courses that has made our graduates so successful in creative, cultural and business communities.So whether you want to learn a new career skill, enhance your job prospects or just discover a new hobby, and at the same time develop your networks, then our short courses are a great opportunity to enrich your life and join the vibrant learning community at a world-class university.What are we offering? Short courses in Business, Innovation and Marketing, Creative Computing, English & Comparative Literature, Music, Dance and Drama, as well as Social Science subjects applied to real life such as Anthropology, Psychology, Social , Therapeutic and Community Studies.Goldsmiths is also home to the only Confucius Institute, whereby professional arts platforms are used to promote Chinese language and culture.

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JavaScript has become the world’s most popular programming language and is available on almost every device that can run a web browser. From a relative novelty offering simple enhancements to web page it has grown to take centre stage not only as a technology for web pages but also for web apps and general command line programs. 
This two-day course assumes that you already have some basic knowledge of HTML/CSS and have already made your own web page (you will be asked to supply a URL). 
On day one: Participants will learn how to:
•    use the Chrome developer tools in order to write JavaScript interactively, test commands and interact with existing web pages •    use the HTML script tag in order to include JavaScript in their web pages •    use the console.log statement in order to debug their programsuse variables in order to hold data or various types •    use control structures and loops in order to manage the flow of execution in their programuse functions in order to encapsulate and reuse their code •    use JavaScript Objects in order to build compound data structures. 
Day two:
Moves on to talk more about how JavaScript objects are used through contemporary networked computing and using the Document Object Model (DOM) commands to interact with web pages and respond to user generated events. We also introduce the popular utility library jQuery that makes writing effective JavaScript easier for the beginning programmer. Participants will learn how to:
•    use external files in order to organise your code and include third party libraries like jQuery or UIKituse JavaScript objects in order to produce and consume common online data structures •    use jQuery in order to simplify common programming tasksuse jQuery to animate HTML elements •    use jQuery to retrieve and use web resources and include them in your web pages •    use online resources in order to develop coding skills and overcome common programming errors. 
The course assumes only a basic knowledge of computer operating systems, word processing and the internet, and students have ample time to practice skills and experiment with tools and ideas. Daily self-assessment exercises allow students to gauge their own progress.
 
Course tutor
Andy Freeman has 30 years of experience with corporates, startups, non-profits and arts organisations, from Apple Computers to Islington Council. He now teaches award-winning students on Goldsmiths’ Digital Journalism, Digital Sociology, Creative Computing and Computer Science degree programmes. <A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-freeman-88099843" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Andy Freeman on LinkedIn</A>

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