Mastering JavaScript and jQuery provides an introduction to and experience working with the JavaScript programming language in the environment it's used in the most: the browser. JavaScript is simple and elegant but is often difficult to work with because it's so different from the programming languages most developers are used to working with.

This course also covers jQuery and provides practical and hands-on experience with the preferred JavaScript library for building rich web applications. If you are building for the web, learning jQuery will change the way you write JavaScript, working across multiple browsers and platforms.

• Become both familiar with the language and confident enough to work with it in any context
• Learn enough of the DOM API to bend it to your will
• Make communication between the browser and your server possible
• Understand and effectively leverage closures
• Understand how JavaScript's object model differs from the model classical object-oriented programming languages
• Learn what jQuery is and how to add it to your applications
• Use jQuery to select complex sets of elements from the DOM
• Develop rich web pages that respond to user interaction
• Interact with your server-side code using Ajax
• Explore a wide variety of plugins and learn how to write your own
• Test your applications to make sure your JavaScript is as solid as the rest of your code