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Learn advanced JavaScript concepts and their applications, key skills for any web developers.

This course will teach you the foundations of JavaScript framework like React, Vue.js, jQuery, or Angular, all of which use some advanced JavaScript techniques. Key topics include block-scoped variables, constants and arrow functions.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 11.0 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Learn advanced JavaScript concepts and their applications, key skills for any web developers.

1. Node.js
2. Scope, var, let, and const
3. Arrow Functions
4. Rest Parameters
5. Spread Operator
6. Array Destructuring
7. Template Literals
8. Objects
9. The Object
10. Array map() Method
11. Array filter() Method
12. Array find() Method
13. JavaScript Modules
14. npm

What you will learn

• Rest parameters
• The spread operator and array destructuring
• Objects, Context, and the object
• The map(), find(), and filter() methods of arrays

How you will benefit

• Prepare to learn JavaScript framework.

Learn advanced JavaScript concepts and their applications, key skills for any web developers.

This course will teach you the foundations of JavaScript framework like React, Vue.js, jQuery, or Angular, all of which use some advanced JavaScript techniques. Key topics include block-scoped variables, constants and arrow functions.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 11.0 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Learn advanced JavaScript concepts and their applications, key skills for any web developers.

1. Node.js
2. Scope, var, let, and const
3. Arrow Functions
4. Rest Parameters
5. Spread Operator
6. Array Destructuring
7. Template Literals
8. Objects
9. The Object
10. Array map() Method
11. Array filter() Method
12. Array find() Method
13. JavaScript Modules
14. npm

What you will learn

• Rest parameters
• The spread operator and array destructuring
• Objects, Context, and the object
• The map(), find(), and filter() methods of arrays

How you will benefit

• Prepare to learn JavaScript framework.

Students will gain valuable and sought-after programming skills.

What you will learn

• Lambda functions
• Advanced list comprehensions
• The collections module
• Mapping and filtering
• Sorting sequences

How you will benefit

• Obtain the experience needed to take your Python programming skills to an advanced level
• Boost your résumé
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 11.0 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Python (Installation instructions provided)
• Visual Studio Code (Installation instructions provided) is recommended. However, you may use a different editor if you prefer.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

This Advanced Python training course picks up where our Introduction to Python course leaves off. This course is for students who have taken the introductory course and are ready to leverage their previous experience to learn more or have some experience programming with Python and are ready to take their skills and knowledge to the next level.

1. Advanced Python Concepts
   1. Lambda Functions
   2. Advanced List Comprehensions
   3. Exercise: Rolling Five Dice
   4. Collections Module
   5. Exercise: Creating a defaultdict
   6. Counters
   7. Exercise: Creating a Counter
   8. Mapping and Filtering
   9. Mutable and Immutable Built-in Objects
   10. Sorting
   11. Exercise: Converting list.sort() to sorted(iterable)
   12. Sorting Sequences of Sequences
   13. Creating a Dictionary from Two Sequences
   14. Unpacking Sequences in Function Calls
   15. Exercise: Converting a String to a datetime.date Object
   16. Modules and Packages
2. Regular Expressions
   1. Regular Expression Tester
   2. Regular Expression Syntax
   3. Python's Handling of Regular Expressions
   4. Exercise: Green Glass Door
3. Working with Data
   1. Virtual Environment
   2. Relational Databases
   3. Passing Parameters
   4. SQLite
   5. Exercise: Querying a SQLite Database
   6. SQLite Database in Memory
   7. Exercise: Inserting File Data into a Database
   8. Drivers for Other Databases
   9. CSV
   10. Exercise: Finding Data in a CSV File
   11. Creating a New CSV File
   12. Exercise: Creating a CSV with DictWriter
   13. Getting Data from the Web
   14. Exercise: HTML Scraping
   15. XML
   16. JSON
   17. Exercise: JSON Home Runs
4. Testing and Debugging
   1. Testing for Performance
   2. Exercise: Comparing Times to Execute
   3. The unittest Module
   4. Exercise: Fixing Functions
   5. Special unittest.TestCase Methods
5. Classes and Objects
   1. Attributes
   2. Behaviors
   3. Classes vs. Objects
   4. Attributes and Methods
   5. Exercise: Adding a roll() Method to Die
   6. Private Attributes
   7. Properties
   8. Exercise: Properties
   9. Objects that Track their Own History
   10. Documenting Classes
   11. Exercise: Documenting the Die Class
   12. Inheritance
   13. Exercise: Extending the Die Class
   14. Extending a Class Method
   15. Exercise: Extending the roll() Method
   16. Static Methods
   17. Class Attributes and Methods
   18. Abstract Classes and Methods
   19. Understanding Decorators

What you will learn

• Lambda functions
• Advanced list comprehensions
• The collections module
• Mapping and filtering
• Sorting sequences

How you will benefit

• Obtain the experience needed to take your Python programming skills to an advanced level
• Boost your résumé
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide

Students will gain valuable and sought-after programming skills.

What you will learn

• Lambda functions
• Advanced list comprehensions
• The collections module
• Mapping and filtering
• Sorting sequences

How you will benefit

• Obtain the experience needed to take your Python programming skills to an advanced level
• Boost your résumé
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 10 or later.
• Mac: macOS 11.0 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Python (Installation instructions provided)
• Visual Studio Code (Installation instructions provided) is recommended. However, you may use a different editor if you prefer.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

This Advanced Python training course picks up where our Introduction to Python course leaves off. This course is for students who have taken the introductory course and are ready to leverage their previous experience to learn more or have some experience programming with Python and are ready to take their skills and knowledge to the next level.

1. Advanced Python Concepts
   1. Lambda Functions
   2. Advanced List Comprehensions
   3. Exercise: Rolling Five Dice
   4. Collections Module
   5. Exercise: Creating a defaultdict
   6. Counters
   7. Exercise: Creating a Counter
   8. Mapping and Filtering
   9. Mutable and Immutable Built-in Objects
   10. Sorting
   11. Exercise: Converting list.sort() to sorted(iterable)
   12. Sorting Sequences of Sequences
   13. Creating a Dictionary from Two Sequences
   14. Unpacking Sequences in Function Calls
   15. Exercise: Converting a String to a datetime.date Object
   16. Modules and Packages
2. Regular Expressions
   1. Regular Expression Tester
   2. Regular Expression Syntax
   3. Python's Handling of Regular Expressions
   4. Exercise: Green Glass Door
3. Working with Data
   1. Virtual Environment
   2. Relational Databases
   3. Passing Parameters
   4. SQLite
   5. Exercise: Querying a SQLite Database
   6. SQLite Database in Memory
   7. Exercise: Inserting File Data into a Database
   8. Drivers for Other Databases
   9. CSV
   10. Exercise: Finding Data in a CSV File
   11. Creating a New CSV File
   12. Exercise: Creating a CSV with DictWriter
   13. Getting Data from the Web
   14. Exercise: HTML Scraping
   15. XML
   16. JSON
   17. Exercise: JSON Home Runs
4. Testing and Debugging
   1. Testing for Performance
   2. Exercise: Comparing Times to Execute
   3. The unittest Module
   4. Exercise: Fixing Functions
   5. Special unittest.TestCase Methods
5. Classes and Objects
   1. Attributes
   2. Behaviors
   3. Classes vs. Objects
   4. Attributes and Methods
   5. Exercise: Adding a roll() Method to Die
   6. Private Attributes
   7. Properties
   8. Exercise: Properties
   9. Objects that Track their Own History
   10. Documenting Classes
   11. Exercise: Documenting the Die Class
   12. Inheritance
   13. Exercise: Extending the Die Class
   14. Extending a Class Method
   15. Exercise: Extending the roll() Method
   16. Static Methods
   17. Class Attributes and Methods
   18. Abstract Classes and Methods
   19. Understanding Decorators

What you will learn

• Lambda functions
• Advanced list comprehensions
• The collections module
• Mapping and filtering
• Sorting sequences

How you will benefit

• Obtain the experience needed to take your Python programming skills to an advanced level
• Boost your résumé
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide

Take your web development skills to the next level as you learn how to create advanced websites using CSS, HTML5, media queries for mobile devices, interactive forms, and embedded video.

Take your web design skills to the next level! Whether you want to work as a freelance web designer, join a web development team, or build websites for your organization, this course will give you the advanced tools you need.

In this course, you will learn to write HTML code for page content and CSS code for page styling. You'll learn the latest versions of the languages used to create modern websites. With the help of step-by-step instructions, you'll build interactive websites that collect information from visitors through email signup and feedback forms. In addition, you'll learn the latest and most effective techniques for presenting layouts and video that work in any browsing environment. Along the way, you'll explore aesthetics, color scheming, and accessibility in web page design.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• A code editor.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

What Is Advanced Web Design?

If you want to take your web pages from okay to "wow," it's time to move up to Web 2.0. In this lesson, you'll explore the core elements of advanced web design: interaction, animation, and page design that's flexible and accessible to visitors on any device.

Creating Your First CSS Style Sheet

In this lesson, you'll enter the world of advanced web design by building your first CSS style sheet. When you're done, you'll link this style sheet to an HTML page and discover how you can instantly make changes to that page—or even to a thousand pages at the same time! In addition, you'll explore some key elements of web page design.

Formatting Your Text

Your website text isn't just a collection of words—it's also a design element that can tell your visitors what you're all about! In this lesson, you'll find out how to specify the appearance of your text using your CSS style sheet. You'll learn about setting your font size, color, line spacing, alignment, background, borders, margins, and padding.

Designing and Formatting Links

Links are a key part of any web page, and there's more to designing them than you might think. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create links that suit the purpose of your site, the technological sophistication of your audience, and the image you want to portray. In addition, you'll analyze a controversial question when it comes to link design: to underline, or not to underline?

Formatting Selected Text and Creating Content Boxes

In this lesson, you'll expand your horizons by learning how to format selected page content. After that, you'll take a big step into advanced design by discovering how to use class styles to design content boxes. In the process, you'll learn all about two powerful web design tools: div tags and span tags.

Creating Containers, Headers, and Footers

Each web page is unique, but three elements are almost universal: a container, a header, and a footer. In this lesson, you'll build these three elements by combining a new tool—ID styles—with div tags. In addition, you'll find out how to embed div tags within containers.

Adding Columns and Interactivity

In this lesson, you'll take your layout to a new level by adding columns to your web page. You'll discover how to place multiple columns on a page, how to pad your columns, and how to create an attractive column layout that's easy to read. In addition, you'll make your columns interactive!

Making Your Pages Look Great on Any Device

Do you use a mobile device to browse the web? More and more people do—and to keep them happy, you'll need to provide mobile-friendly content. But how can you do that, and still design a page that works on a big screen? This lesson will teach you how to create web pages that look different, but still great, on both full-sized monitors and mobile devices.

Designing With HTML5

Web designers always need to be thinking about the future—and that future will include HTML5. In this lesson, you'll learn all about the advantages of this versatile markup language, and you'll add HTML5 elements to your own web page. In addition, you'll find out which environments currently support HTML5 and which ones don't.

Embedding Video in Your Web Pages

A great video can increase your website traffic, sell your products, or even make you a superstar. But here's the big issue you'll face as a web designer: Not all video formats work with all browsers. In this lesson, you'll learn how to overcome that problem as you master simple tricks for embedding videos that will play in any browsing environment.

Creating Forms

What do you need to know about your website's visitors—their names, their email addresses, or maybe even how they rate your site? In this lesson, you'll find out how to collect information like this (and much more) by adding forms to your pages. In these chapters, you'll build your own form, add form fields, and define where your collected data will go.

Uploading and Fine-Tuning Your Pages

You've mastered it all—interactivity, animation, and accessibility—and you're ready to call yourself an advanced web designer. Now it's time to take the next step and reveal your site to the world. In this lesson, you'll learn how to upload your site to the web and how to check your spelling, links, accessibility, and browser compatibility. Here's the great news: You'll do it all for free!

What you will learn

• Learn how to design web pages that are optimized and compatible with any browser and device
• Discover the advanced tools you need to create modern websites that are both professional and attractive
• Learn how to use HTML5 for content and CSS3 for style so your pages will appeal to visitors
• Examine how interactivity, animation, and accessibility can transform your web page design

How you will benefit

• Master cutting-edge techniques that take full advantage of HTML5 and CSS3
• Gain confidence in your ability to design attractive web pages that appeal to an audience
• Open the door to new career opportunities through your highly-applicable skills in modern web page design

Doug Sahlin

Doug Sahlin is a professional photographer, author, graphic designer, and instructor living in Venice, Florida. He was President of Superb Images, a wedding and event photography company for three years. He creates fine art images of the flora, fauna, and iconic landscapes and seascapes found on the west coast of Florida. Sahlin has written over twenty how-to books, many of them bestsellers on Amazon.

Take your web development skills to the next level as you learn how to create advanced websites using CSS, HTML5, media queries for mobile devices, interactive forms, and embedded video.

Take your web design skills to the next level! Whether you want to work as a freelance web designer, join a web development team, or build websites for your organization, this course will give you the advanced tools you need.

In this course, you will learn to write HTML code for page content and CSS code for page styling. You'll learn the latest versions of the languages used to create modern websites. With the help of step-by-step instructions, you'll build interactive websites that collect information from visitors through email signup and feedback forms. In addition, you'll learn the latest and most effective techniques for presenting layouts and video that work in any browsing environment. Along the way, you'll explore aesthetics, color scheming, and accessibility in web page design.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• A code editor.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

What Is Advanced Web Design?

If you want to take your web pages from okay to "wow," it's time to move up to Web 2.0. In this lesson, you'll explore the core elements of advanced web design: interaction, animation, and page design that's flexible and accessible to visitors on any device.

Creating Your First CSS Style Sheet

In this lesson, you'll enter the world of advanced web design by building your first CSS style sheet. When you're done, you'll link this style sheet to an HTML page and discover how you can instantly make changes to that page—or even to a thousand pages at the same time! In addition, you'll explore some key elements of web page design.

Formatting Your Text

Your website text isn't just a collection of words—it's also a design element that can tell your visitors what you're all about! In this lesson, you'll find out how to specify the appearance of your text using your CSS style sheet. You'll learn about setting your font size, color, line spacing, alignment, background, borders, margins, and padding.

Designing and Formatting Links

Links are a key part of any web page, and there's more to designing them than you might think. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create links that suit the purpose of your site, the technological sophistication of your audience, and the image you want to portray. In addition, you'll analyze a controversial question when it comes to link design: to underline, or not to underline?

Formatting Selected Text and Creating Content Boxes

In this lesson, you'll expand your horizons by learning how to format selected page content. After that, you'll take a big step into advanced design by discovering how to use class styles to design content boxes. In the process, you'll learn all about two powerful web design tools: div tags and span tags.

Creating Containers, Headers, and Footers

Each web page is unique, but three elements are almost universal: a container, a header, and a footer. In this lesson, you'll build these three elements by combining a new tool—ID styles—with div tags. In addition, you'll find out how to embed div tags within containers.

Adding Columns and Interactivity

In this lesson, you'll take your layout to a new level by adding columns to your web page. You'll discover how to place multiple columns on a page, how to pad your columns, and how to create an attractive column layout that's easy to read. In addition, you'll make your columns interactive!

Making Your Pages Look Great on Any Device

Do you use a mobile device to browse the web? More and more people do—and to keep them happy, you'll need to provide mobile-friendly content. But how can you do that, and still design a page that works on a big screen? This lesson will teach you how to create web pages that look different, but still great, on both full-sized monitors and mobile devices.

Designing With HTML5

Web designers always need to be thinking about the future—and that future will include HTML5. In this lesson, you'll learn all about the advantages of this versatile markup language, and you'll add HTML5 elements to your own web page. In addition, you'll find out which environments currently support HTML5 and which ones don't.

Embedding Video in Your Web Pages

A great video can increase your website traffic, sell your products, or even make you a superstar. But here's the big issue you'll face as a web designer: Not all video formats work with all browsers. In this lesson, you'll learn how to overcome that problem as you master simple tricks for embedding videos that will play in any browsing environment.

Creating Forms

What do you need to know about your website's visitors—their names, their email addresses, or maybe even how they rate your site? In this lesson, you'll find out how to collect information like this (and much more) by adding forms to your pages. In these chapters, you'll build your own form, add form fields, and define where your collected data will go.

Uploading and Fine-Tuning Your Pages

You've mastered it all—interactivity, animation, and accessibility—and you're ready to call yourself an advanced web designer. Now it's time to take the next step and reveal your site to the world. In this lesson, you'll learn how to upload your site to the web and how to check your spelling, links, accessibility, and browser compatibility. Here's the great news: You'll do it all for free!

What you will learn

• Learn how to design web pages that are optimized and compatible with any browser and device
• Discover the advanced tools you need to create modern websites that are both professional and attractive
• Learn how to use HTML5 for content and CSS3 for style so your pages will appeal to visitors
• Examine how interactivity, animation, and accessibility can transform your web page design

How you will benefit

• Master cutting-edge techniques that take full advantage of HTML5 and CSS3
• Gain confidence in your ability to design attractive web pages that appeal to an audience
• Open the door to new career opportunities through your highly-applicable skills in modern web page design

Doug Sahlin

Doug Sahlin is a professional photographer, author, graphic designer, and instructor living in Venice, Florida. He was President of Superb Images, a wedding and event photography company for three years. He creates fine art images of the flora, fauna, and iconic landscapes and seascapes found on the west coast of Florida. Sahlin has written over twenty how-to books, many of them bestsellers on Amazon.

Discover how HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and web APIs are used to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

Do you want to make mobile apps that run on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Android, and Windows Phone? Sure you do! Do you want to learn five different programming languages? Of course you don't!

Fortunately, you're about to discover a better way to build apps. In this course, you'll view ways to imagine, design, build, and optimize a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. The result will be a mobile app that's fast and runs on just about any smartphone or tablet computer.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Linux may also be used.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

The Basics of Mobile Apps and App Design

What are the compelling reasons for developing mobile apps with HTML5, and why are some of the web's biggest players—including Google, Facebook, and Twitter—moving all their apps to the mobile web? In this lesson, you'll learn four principles for designing great mobile apps and get acquainted with the concept of "mobile first" web development. By the end of the lesson, you'll be ready to start writing an app.

Building Your First Mobile App

In this lesson, you'll follow the progress of employees at a fictitious company as they build a mobile app. In the process, you'll set up your tools and get your hands dirty with some real HTML5 code.

Introducing HTML5

HTML5 is the latest version of the markup language of the web. In this lesson, you'll learn why web developers and mobile developers are so gung-ho for HTML5. More importantly, you'll find out how you can use it to write your own web pages. By the end of the lesson, you'll understand the basics of markup languages and HTML5 syntax.

Formatting HTML5 With CSS3

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are an extremely important part of modern web design. In this lesson, you'll use CSS to format HTML documents. This lesson also looks at the new capabilities that are possible with CSS version 3.

Scripting With JavaScript

JavaScript is the programming language of the mobile web. In this lesson, you'll learn to use JavaScript to add interactivity to mobile apps.

Jump-Start Your App With jQuery Mobile

This lesson is all about getting things done faster, better, and with less effort! You'll use jQuery Mobile to make your HTML5 apps feel at home on mobile devices. You'll also use JavaScript libraries and frameworks to get more done in less time.

Accessing Device Features and Storage

By accessing built-in device features such as offline storage and location services, you can make your mobile web apps much more dynamic. In this lesson, you'll learn what's possible and how to do it.

Web APIs and Mashups

No web app is an island. Hundreds of app developers have made certain features of their software available using Web Application Programming Interfaces. By using these APIs to retrieve data and then combining different data sources, you can create endless combinations called mashups.

HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Graphics and animation can really spice up your mobile apps. The mobile web has special requirements and technologies that you need to be aware of, however. In this lesson, you'll learn to optimize your graphics for the mobile web.

Optimizing for Mobile Devices

Smartphones and tablets come in different shapes and sizes. In this lesson, you'll learn to make your web app look good on the largest possible variety of devices. You'll also add some meta tags that will give your app more polish on iPhone and Android, and then focus on touch-enabling your app.

Maximizing Mobile Performance

A responsive app doesn't keep the user waiting. In this lesson, you'll learn some techniques to make your app responsive. You'll also try out some tools that will help you check and improve your site's responsiveness.

Convert Your App to a Native App

Native apps give you access to more device features and to the distribution power of an app store. Learn how to use Apache Cordova to convert your web app into a native one for multiple mobile operating systems.

What you will learn

• Learn to build apps using HTML5 and CSS3
• Discover scripting with JavaScript and several JavaScript frameworks and techniques such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and AJAX
• Understand how to use web services in your app
• Learn how to determine an app's user location by accessing the built-in geolocation capabilities of the user's smartphone
• Discover how to use web APIs to combine different web services to create mobile mashups
• Optimize your app for performance
• Learn to convert your HTML5 apps into native apps that you can submit to app stores

How you will benefit

• Learn some of the most sought-after skills in web and mobile development
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide
• Gain the skills you need to become a mobile app developer

Mike Orsega

Mike Orsega has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's Degree in Applied Math from the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Mike teaches programming both online and in the classroom and has more than five years of online teaching experience in subjects ranging from basic computer literacy to C# and Alice programming.

Discover how HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and web APIs are used to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

Do you want to make mobile apps that run on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Android, and Windows Phone? Sure you do! Do you want to learn five different programming languages? Of course you don't!

Fortunately, you're about to discover a better way to build apps. In this course, you'll view ways to imagine, design, build, and optimize a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. The result will be a mobile app that's fast and runs on just about any smartphone or tablet computer.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Linux may also be used.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

The Basics of Mobile Apps and App Design

What are the compelling reasons for developing mobile apps with HTML5, and why are some of the web's biggest players—including Google, Facebook, and Twitter—moving all their apps to the mobile web? In this lesson, you'll learn four principles for designing great mobile apps and get acquainted with the concept of "mobile first" web development. By the end of the lesson, you'll be ready to start writing an app.

Building Your First Mobile App

In this lesson, you'll follow the progress of employees at a fictitious company as they build a mobile app. In the process, you'll set up your tools and get your hands dirty with some real HTML5 code.

Introducing HTML5

HTML5 is the latest version of the markup language of the web. In this lesson, you'll learn why web developers and mobile developers are so gung-ho for HTML5. More importantly, you'll find out how you can use it to write your own web pages. By the end of the lesson, you'll understand the basics of markup languages and HTML5 syntax.

Formatting HTML5 With CSS3

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are an extremely important part of modern web design. In this lesson, you'll use CSS to format HTML documents. This lesson also looks at the new capabilities that are possible with CSS version 3.

Scripting With JavaScript

JavaScript is the programming language of the mobile web. In this lesson, you'll learn to use JavaScript to add interactivity to mobile apps.

Jump-Start Your App With jQuery Mobile

This lesson is all about getting things done faster, better, and with less effort! You'll use jQuery Mobile to make your HTML5 apps feel at home on mobile devices. You'll also use JavaScript libraries and frameworks to get more done in less time.

Accessing Device Features and Storage

By accessing built-in device features such as offline storage and location services, you can make your mobile web apps much more dynamic. In this lesson, you'll learn what's possible and how to do it.

Web APIs and Mashups

No web app is an island. Hundreds of app developers have made certain features of their software available using Web Application Programming Interfaces. By using these APIs to retrieve data and then combining different data sources, you can create endless combinations called mashups.

HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Graphics and animation can really spice up your mobile apps. The mobile web has special requirements and technologies that you need to be aware of, however. In this lesson, you'll learn to optimize your graphics for the mobile web.

Optimizing for Mobile Devices

Smartphones and tablets come in different shapes and sizes. In this lesson, you'll learn to make your web app look good on the largest possible variety of devices. You'll also add some meta tags that will give your app more polish on iPhone and Android, and then focus on touch-enabling your app.

Maximizing Mobile Performance

A responsive app doesn't keep the user waiting. In this lesson, you'll learn some techniques to make your app responsive. You'll also try out some tools that will help you check and improve your site's responsiveness.

Convert Your App to a Native App

Native apps give you access to more device features and to the distribution power of an app store. Learn how to use Apache Cordova to convert your web app into a native one for multiple mobile operating systems.

What you will learn

• Learn to build apps using HTML5 and CSS3
• Discover scripting with JavaScript and several JavaScript frameworks and techniques such as jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and AJAX
• Understand how to use web services in your app
• Learn how to determine an app's user location by accessing the built-in geolocation capabilities of the user's smartphone
• Discover how to use web APIs to combine different web services to create mobile mashups
• Optimize your app for performance
• Learn to convert your HTML5 apps into native apps that you can submit to app stores

How you will benefit

• Learn some of the most sought-after skills in web and mobile development
• Open the door to new freelance and employment opportunities at companies nationwide
• Gain the skills you need to become a mobile app developer

Mike Orsega

Mike Orsega has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's Degree in Applied Math from the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Mike teaches programming both online and in the classroom and has more than five years of online teaching experience in subjects ranging from basic computer literacy to C# and Alice programming.

Learn to use HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Web APIs to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

Do you want to make mobile apps that run on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Android, and Windows Phone? Sure you do! Do you want to learn five different programming languages? Of course you don't!

Fortunately, you're about to discover a better way to build apps. In this course, you'll learn how to imagine, design, build, and optimize a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. The result will be a mobile app that's fast and runs on just about any smartphone or tablet computer.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Linux may also be used.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Learn to use HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Web APIs to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

The Basics of Mobile Apps and App Design

What are the compelling reasons for developing mobile apps with HTML5? And why are some of the web's biggest players—including Google, Facebook, and Twitter—moving all their apps to the mobile web? Today you'll learn four principles for designing great mobile apps, and you'll get acquainted with the concept of "mobile first" web development. By the end of this lesson, you'll be ready to start writing an app.

Building Your First Mobile App

Today you'll follow the progress of employees at a fictitious company as they build a mobile app. In the process, you'll set up your tools and get your hands dirty with some real HTML5 code.

Introducing HTML5

HTML5 is the latest version of the markup language of the web. In this lesson, you'll learn why web developers and mobile developers are so gung-ho for HTML5. More importantly, you'll find out how you can use it to write your own webpages. By the end of the lesson, you'll understand the basics of markup languages and HTML5 syntax.

Formatting HTML5 With CSS3

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) will make your web apps workable on the largest number of devices, and it'll make your code easier to maintain. In this lesson, you'll use CSS to format HTML documents. This lesson also looks at the new capabilities that are possible with CSS version 3.

Scripting With JavaScript

JavaScript is the programming language of the mobile web. In this lesson, you'll learn to use JavaScript to add interactivity to mobile apps.

Jump-Start Your App With jQuery Mobile

Today's lesson is all about getting things done faster, better, and with less effort! You'll use jQuery Mobile to make your HTML5 apps feel at home on mobile devices. You'll also use JavaScript libraries and frameworks to get more done in less time.

Accessing Device Features and Storage

By accessing built-in device features such as offline storage and location services, you can make your mobile web apps much more dynamic. In this lesson, you'll learn what's possible and how to do it.

Web APIs and Mashups

No web app is an island. Hundreds of app developers have made certain features of their software available using Web Application Programming Interfaces. By using these APIs to retrieve data and then combining different data sources, you can create endless combinations called mashups.

HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Graphics and animation can really spice up your mobile apps. The mobile web has special requirements and technologies that you need to be aware of, however. In this lesson, you'll learn to optimize your graphics for the mobile web.

Optimizing for Mobile Devices

Smartphones and tablets come in different shapes and sizes. In this lesson, you'll learn to make your web app look good on the largest possible variety of devices. You'll also add some meta tags that will give your app more polish on iPhone and Android, and then focus on touch-enabling your app.

Maximizing Mobile Performance

A responsive app doesn't keep the user waiting. In this lesson, you'll learn tools and techniques to make your app responsive.

Convert Your App to a Native App

Native apps give you access to more device features and to the distribution power of an app store. Learn how to use PhoneGap to convert your web app into a native one for multiple mobile operating systems.

Learn to use HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Web APIs to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

Do you want to make mobile apps that run on iPhone and iPad, as well as on Android, and Windows Phone? Sure you do! Do you want to learn five different programming languages? Of course you don't!

Fortunately, you're about to discover a better way to build apps. In this course, you'll learn how to imagine, design, build, and optimize a cross-platform mobile app using the very latest HTML5 standards. The result will be a mobile app that's fast and runs on just about any smartphone or tablet computer.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

• This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.

Software Requirements:

• PC: Windows 8 or later.
• Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
• Linux may also be used.
• Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

• Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Learn to use HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and Web APIs to create cross-platform mobile apps and mashups.

The Basics of Mobile Apps and App Design

What are the compelling reasons for developing mobile apps with HTML5? And why are some of the web's biggest players—including Google, Facebook, and Twitter—moving all their apps to the mobile web? Today you'll learn four principles for designing great mobile apps, and you'll get acquainted with the concept of "mobile first" web development. By the end of this lesson, you'll be ready to start writing an app.

Building Your First Mobile App

Today you'll follow the progress of employees at a fictitious company as they build a mobile app. In the process, you'll set up your tools and get your hands dirty with some real HTML5 code.

Introducing HTML5

HTML5 is the latest version of the markup language of the web. In this lesson, you'll learn why web developers and mobile developers are so gung-ho for HTML5. More importantly, you'll find out how you can use it to write your own webpages. By the end of the lesson, you'll understand the basics of markup languages and HTML5 syntax.

Formatting HTML5 With CSS3

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) will make your web apps workable on the largest number of devices, and it'll make your code easier to maintain. In this lesson, you'll use CSS to format HTML documents. This lesson also looks at the new capabilities that are possible with CSS version 3.

Scripting With JavaScript

JavaScript is the programming language of the mobile web. In this lesson, you'll learn to use JavaScript to add interactivity to mobile apps.

Jump-Start Your App With jQuery Mobile

Today's lesson is all about getting things done faster, better, and with less effort! You'll use jQuery Mobile to make your HTML5 apps feel at home on mobile devices. You'll also use JavaScript libraries and frameworks to get more done in less time.

Accessing Device Features and Storage

By accessing built-in device features such as offline storage and location services, you can make your mobile web apps much more dynamic. In this lesson, you'll learn what's possible and how to do it.

Web APIs and Mashups

No web app is an island. Hundreds of app developers have made certain features of their software available using Web Application Programming Interfaces. By using these APIs to retrieve data and then combining different data sources, you can create endless combinations called mashups.

HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Graphics and animation can really spice up your mobile apps. The mobile web has special requirements and technologies that you need to be aware of, however. In this lesson, you'll learn to optimize your graphics for the mobile web.

Optimizing for Mobile Devices

Smartphones and tablets come in different shapes and sizes. In this lesson, you'll learn to make your web app look good on the largest possible variety of devices. You'll also add some meta tags that will give your app more polish on iPhone and Android, and then focus on touch-enabling your app.

Maximizing Mobile Performance

A responsive app doesn't keep the user waiting. In this lesson, you'll learn tools and techniques to make your app responsive.

Convert Your App to a Native App

Native apps give you access to more device features and to the distribution power of an app store. Learn how to use PhoneGap to convert your web app into a native one for multiple mobile operating systems.