Lecture 6,7,8: JavaScript

Been a while since we posted. This lecture covers a lot, from basic JavaScript to DOM to dHTML to Advanced JavaScript with prototype-inheritance and function closures and finally to AJAX.

Lecture PPT

We also went over some examples. I've posted those here:

Table Row Highlighter
Move Element
Drag'n Drop

Good Blogs

Here's a really good blog post by Bruce Eckel (famous for writing Thinking in C/Thinking in Java series) talking about how the web environment is different (and perhaps a biased view of Adobe Flex): http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593

Some blogs that are updated quite frequently that I read are:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/ - ReadWriteWeb often times has some really insightful comments about the new web

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/ - Ryan Stewart talks about Rich Internet Applications and technologies emerging out of it. He's a little biased and doesn't believe in the AJAX as an Rich Internet Application tool

http://www.techcrunch.com/ - TechCrunch keeps up-to date with news items about companies forming or new products coming out. It's usually not too insightful but still very good to keep up with

Hopefully at some point, I'll post a list of all the blogs I read, but this will be good start for now. I really recommend getting an RSS read and subscribing to these places (you can even subscribe to this blog!).

If you have some good blogs or news sites, post it in the comments.

-Ryan