10-Week Free AJAX Programming Online Course

1. AJAX Basics & Development Tools (Aug. 4th, 2006)

In this session, you are going to learn basic concepts of AJAX such as how XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object is created and used by the browser for performing asynchronous communication with the backend server.  For the hands-on lab, you are also going to learn how to use a few debugging tools out there, especially FireBug debugger, for debugging client side JavaScript code.  You will also play around with various “ready to build and run” AJAX sample applications.

1. Presentation slides (1.5 hour)

• PDF: 1 slide per page
• PDF: slides with speaker notes
• StarOffice file
• Flash
• Flash (Downloadable, unzip it and access the AJAXBasics.swf file from your browser)

2. Labs and homework (3 hours)

• 4257_ajaxbasics2.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /ajaxbasics2/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Flash

2. AJAX Frameworks and Toolkits (Aug. 11th, 2006)

The goal of this session is to let you get exposed to various AJAX frameworks and toolkits that are available as of today and let you have some sense of their capabilities so that you can make best judgment in terms of which one suites the need of your project in hand.

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file

2. Labs (2 hours)

• 4258_ajaxframeworks.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /ajaxframeworks/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)

10-Week Free AJAX Programming Online Course

1. AJAX Basics & Development Tools (Aug. 4th, 2006)

In this session, you are going to learn basic concepts of AJAX such as how XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object is created and used by the browser for performing asynchronous communication with the backend server.  For the hands-on lab, you are also going to learn how to use a few debugging tools out there, especially FireBug debugger, for debugging client side JavaScript code.  You will also play around with various “ready to build and run” AJAX sample applications.

1. Presentation slides (1.5 hour)

• PDF: 1 slide per page
• PDF: slides with speaker notes
• StarOffice file
• Flash
• Flash (Downloadable, unzip it and access the AJAXBasics.swf file from your browser)

2. Labs and homework (3 hours)

• 4257_ajaxbasics2.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /ajaxbasics2/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)
• Flash

2. AJAX Frameworks and Toolkits (Aug. 11th, 2006)

The goal of this session is to let you get exposed to various AJAX frameworks and toolkits that are available as of today and let you have some sense of their capabilities so that you can make best judgment in terms of which one suites the need of your project in hand.

1. Presentation slides (1 hour)

• PDF: 1 slide per page
• StarOffice file

2. Labs (2 hours)

• 4258_ajaxframeworks.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /ajaxframeworks/index.html to proceed)
• Online lab document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file)