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Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript 

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Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript
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Overview

Learn how to represent and exchange data using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and how to access RESTful APIs on the web

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

11,410

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript
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UPenn 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from University of Pennsylvania
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Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript
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UPenn 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • The basics of how the World Wide Web allows browsers to send and retrieve web content
  • Web browser internals, the Document Object Model (DOM), and jQuery
  • How to create dynamic, interactive web pages using JavaScript
  • Techniques for creating data-driven websites using modern web technologies
  • Client-side JavaScript libraries and frameworks
  • Server-side JavaScript application architecture, middleware, HTTP, and RESTful API design
More about this course
  • This course, part of the CS Essentials for Software Development Professional Certificate program, provides an introduction to modern web development using JavaScript
  • In addition to exploring the basics of web page creation using HTML and CSS, you will learn advanced web page layout and responsive design tools such as Bootstrap
  • You will also learn how browsers represent a web page data using the Document Object Model (DOM) and how to develop dynamic, interactive web pages using JavaScript in the browser
  • This course will also introduce you to modern web frameworks and component-based libraries such as React.js for efficiently developing modular web page components, and D3.js for creating data-driven documents

Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript
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UPenn 
Curriculum

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Computer Science Essentials: Programming for the Web with JavaScript
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Faculty details

Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy has been a teaching-track faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 2010, and is co-director of the Online Masters of Computer & Information Technology program. His academic interests include online education, student contributions to open source software projects, and how these affect diversity and inclusion within CS.
Swapneel Sheth
Swapneel Sheth is a Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.E. in Computer Engineering from Sarder Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai University in 2006

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