Part I: Lecture and Demonstration by the instructor on JavaScript Fundamentals

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• What JavaScript is? What JavaScript can do?
• The Difference between JavaScript and Java
• Handling Events, Values and variables
• Assignments and comparisons
• What tools to use? Where to put your scripts?
• Hiding scripts from old browsers, Putting comments in scripts
• Alerting the user,
• Redirecting the user
• Browser detection and conditionals,
• Plug-in detection
• Around and around with loops,
• Functions
• Scrolling status bars, Status bar messages

  Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on creating simple JavaScript code

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• Creating rollovers
• Creating more effective rollovers
• Triggering rollovers from a link
• Creating cycling
• Making the banner cycling wait for the user
• Building slide shows
• Displaying a random image
• Combining a rollover with an image map
• Automatically changing background colors
• Frames, Frames, and More Frames
• Keeping a page out of a frame
• Forcing a page into a frame
• Loading a frame
• Creating and loading a dynamic frame
• Sharing functions between frames
• Storing information in frames

  Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on creating rollovers, slide shows and images

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students:  

• Verifying Forms
• Validating Email address
• Selecting menu items
• Working with radio buttons
• Setting one field with another
• Validating Zip codes
• Verifying passwords        
• Working with Browser Windows
• Opening a new window
• Scrolling a window
• Bringing windows to the front
• Updating one window from another
• Creating new pages with JavaScript
• Closing a window
• Creating a control panel
• Displaying alerts when a window is loaded

Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on Working with Forms and Windows

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples and projects from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• Putting the current date into a web page
• Working with days
• Customizing your message for the time of day
• Converting military time to AM/PM
• Creating a countdown
• Working with referrer pages
• JavaScript and Cookies            

 Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on Dynamically Updated Pages

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples and projects from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• What Is Java?
• The Java Programming Language
• The Java Platform
• What Can Java Do?     
• How Will Java Change My Life?
• Create a Java Source File, Compile the Source File
• Run the Application
• The Anatomy of a Java Application
• Comments in Java Code   
• Defining a Class, The main Method
• Using Classes and Objects

• Create a Java Source File
• Compile the Source File
• Create an HTML File That Includes the Applet
• Running the Applet
• The Anatomy of a Java Applet
• Importing Classes and Packages
• Defining an Applet Subclass
• Implementing Applet Methods
• Running an Applet
• Common Problems (and Their Solutions)
• Compiler Problems
• Can't Run the Compiler
• Can't Find the File
• Changes Didn't Take Effect  
• Syntax Errors
• Semantic Errors
• Interpreter Problems
• Can't Find Class
• The main Method Is Not Defined 31
• Applet Problems

Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on Creating Applets

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• What Is an Object?
• The Benefits of Objects
• What Is a Message?
• The Benefits of Messages
• What Is a Class?
• Objects versus Classes           
• The Benefit of Classes,
• What Is Inheritance?   
• The Benefits of Inheritance 
• Where Can I Get More Information?

 Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on Creating Applets

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• Running the count Chars, Variables and Data Types
• Data Types, Variable Names, Scope, Variable Initialization
• Final Variables, Operators, Arithmetic Operators       
• Relational and Conditional Operators, Bitwise and Logical Operators   
• Assignment Operators, Expressions  
• Control Flow Statements, The if-else Statement
• The switch Statement, Loop Statements    
• Exception-Handling Statements, Branching Statements       
• Arrays and Strings, Arrays, Strings, String Concatenation

Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on The Nuts and Bolts of the Java Language

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the following features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books. 

• Running the count Chars, Variables and Data Types
• Data Types, Variable Names, Scope, Variable Initialization
• Final Variables, Operators, Arithmetic Operators       
• Relational and Conditional Operators, Bitwise and Logical Operators   
• Assignment Operators, Expressions  
• Control Flow Statements, The if-else Statement
• The switch Statement, Loop Statements    
• Exception-Handling Statements, Branching Statements   

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• A Brief Introduction to Classes, The Life Cycle of an Object
• Creating Objects, Using Objects    
• Cleaning Up Unused Objects, Creating Classes    
• Providing Constructors for Your Classes
• Declaring Member Variables, Implementing Methods       
• Controlling Access to Members of a Class
• Understanding Instance and Class Members
• Writing a finalize Method, Reality Break! The Spot Applet
• Extending a Class, Implementing an Interface
• Using an Inner Class to Implement an Adapter
• Hands-on lab   

 Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on Objects and Classes in Java

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• Managing Inheritance, Understanding Inheritance     
• Being a Descendent of Object
• Writing Final Classes and Methods
• Writing Abstract Classes and Methods
• Creating Interfaces, What Is an Interface?        
• Defining an Interface         
• Implementing the Sleeper Interface         
• Using an Interface as a Type   
• Warning! Interfaces CannotGrow   
• Implementing Nested Classes
• Inner Classes, Other Facts about Nested Classes  
• Creating and Using Packages         
• Creating a Package, Using Package Members        
• Managing Source and Class Files    
• Setting the Class Path

Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on inheritance, final classes, abstracts and packages in Java (

 The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

The instructor will explain the concepts and using the instructor's computer will demonstrate the following features for the students: 

• A Simple Applet     
• The Life Cycle of an Applet  
• Loading the Applet  
• Leaving and Returning to the Applet's Page    
• Reloading the Applet  
• Quitting the Browser        
• Summary
• Methods for Milestones     
• Methods for Drawing and Event Handling
• Methods for Adding Ul Components
• Methods for Using Ul Components in Applets
• Adding an Uneditable Text Field to the Simple Applet
• What Applets Can and Cannot Do
• Test Driving an Applet  

Students do Hands-on lab and exercises on creating applets

The students will use their assigned workstations to practice the above features. The instructor will monitor their performance and assists the students to do their projects. Students will use examples from their books.

• Finding and Loading Data Files
• Displaying Short Status Strings
• Displaying Documents in the Browser       
• Sending Messages to Other Applets
• Finding an Applet by Name: the get Applet Method     
• Finding All of the Applets on a Page: the getApplets Method       
• Playing Sounds    
• Sound-Related Methods     
• An Example: Sound Example        
• Defining and Using Applet Parameters
• Deciding Which Parameters to Support         
• Writing the Code to Support Parameters    
• Giving Information about Parameters    
• Using the <APPLET> Tag
• Specifying Parameters    
• Specifying Alternate HTML Code and Text       
• Specifying the Applet Directory    
• Combining An Applet's Files into a Single File
• Other<APPLET>Tag Attributes
• Hands-on lab