Now, let's take a look at what you should be familiar with in order to benefit the most from this course. A thorough knowledge of HTML and CSS will provide will an essential foundation for understanding the content in this course. For HTML you should be familiar with commonly used tags such as divs, paragraphs, links, lists and form elements. You will also want to be comfortable with CSS, such as how to create style classes, working with IDs, manipulating color, placement and visibility of HTML elements. If you are a beginner to these topics or would like to advance your knowledge, I recommend VTC's HTML 4-5 with CSS course by James Gonzalez. Since jQuery is in fact a library of JavaScript functions, naturally it will all make much more sense if you have an understanding of JavaScript. The better you are at JavaScript, the further you will be able to go with jQuery. This knowledge will be especially handy if you want to be able to customize existing plugins to your specific needs, write your own plugins or when you sometimes when need to troubleshoot complex issues such as conflicts between plugins and so on. Working with jQuery in professional environments means that you are likely to be working with some kind of server side scripting language, such as PHP.net or ColdFusion which inevitably involves the use of a database. We will look at ways to incorporate jQuery with database driven applications using PHP and MySQL as these are very popular and are freely available. If you are new to PHP you can get up to speed quickly with VTC's real world programming with PHP 5 course also available through VTC.
| Course: | jQuery |
| Author: | John Fontana |
| SKU: | 34277 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-020-6 |
| Release Date: | 2011-11-18 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 102 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |