JavaScript Introduction

Slides: OpenOffice PowerPoint
Reading: HFJS Ch. 1

Tools

FileZilla is now on your lab computer.

Homework

Lab

• Locate the code for chaper 1 on the HeadFirst JavaScript website.
• Download the two iRock images into a new folder in the Labs directory on your thumb-drive.
• Create the iRock HTML page (see page 17 of the text).
• Add a JavaScript alert to make the rock greet users when the web page loads (page 20).
• Write JavaScript code to
  1. ask the user's name,
  2. display a personalized greeting, and
  3. make the rock smile
  (page 24).
• Add an event handler to run this code when the user clicks on the rock (page 26).
• (If you haven't already), transfer the folder for today's lab to your thumb drive.
• Create a hyperlink from your labs directory's index.html to the web pages you worked on today.
• Using an FTP client, synchronize your web site to the image on your thumbdrive.

Always shut down your computer and turn off your display before leaving the lab.