CS 133JS Course Materials

Welcome to the course materials repository for CS 133JS, Beginning Programming: JavaScript. View the GitHub repository to see all the course materials: lecture notes, exercises, example code, lab assignments and the term project. This page has links to the lecture notes as well as external resources related to this course.

Syllabus Getting Started Guide

Beginning Programming: JavaScript

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction
- Intro to the course and to JavaScript
- The Basics of programming
2. Functions, Expressions and Operators
3. Selection Statements
- Conditional Statements—if
- Conditional Statements—switch
4. Repetition Statements
5. Review and Midterm
- Midterm Review
6. Arrays
7. Objects
- Objects
- Object Constructors
8. Events
- Web Page I/O
- The Document Object Model (DOM)
9. Regular Expressions
- Regular Expressions
- Regular Expressions with Strings
10. Review and Term Project
11. Final and Next Steps
- Next Steps in Learning Programming

Links to Useful Resources

These resources are outside the course materials GitHub repository.

General Resources

Zoom
Discord

LCC Resources

Resources for Online Students

How to Navigate Moodle —A concise orientation to the Moodle LMS.
Online Readyness Survey —Assess yourself to find out how you can be more successful in any online course.
How to join a Zoom meeting —How to join the live stream of an on-campus class.

Development Tools

Visual Studio Code—Code Editor
FileZilla—FTP Client

Online Books (Free)

Eloquent JavaScript, A Modern Introduction to Programming—Third Edition, Marijn Haverbeke, No Starch Press, 2018.
The JavaScript Beginners Handbook—Flavio Copes, 2020
You Don't Know JS—1st Edition, book series (6 books) by Kyle Simpson, O'Reilly, 2015
You Don't Know JS Yet—2nd Edition, book series (2 books so far) by Kyle Simpson, Leanpub, 2020

Online Tutorials

W3Schools JavaScript Tutorials—Easy to understand tutorials on the basics of JavaScript.
MDN JavaScript Tutorials—Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is perhaps the most authoritative source for learning JavaScript.
How to Code in JavaScript/a>—An excellent set of tutorials covering all the basics of JavaScript programming by Lisa Tagliaferri and Tania Rascia.

JavaScript Tutorial—A well written and organized set of tutorials by Anthony Pham.

CS 133JS Course Materials

Beginning Programming: JavaScript

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction

2. Functions, Expressions and Operators

3. Selection Statements

4. Repetition Statements

5. Review and Midterm

6. Arrays

7. Objects

8. Events

9. Regular Expressions

10. Review and Term Project

11. Final and Next Steps