Hackbright Front-End Web Development | Week 6

Monday:

• jQuery

  • $ is a function that takes a string or html element as an argument and returns a jQuery object

    • ex: $(“#home”).css(“background”, “red”);

    • $(“p”).addClass(“highlight”);

• Exercises

  • hide/show divs when link is clicked: see here

Wednesday:

• AJAX – asynchronous JavaScript and XML

  • allows you to make a call to the server without refreshing the page

• 200 means ok

• 400 means bad

• GET – retrieving value from server

• POST – posting value to server

• Exercises

  • word count

  • rock-paper-scissors

  • serverTime

Homework:

• replace JavaScript in portfolio with jQuery

• add a class project to the portfolio