Today’s goals:
- Finish Intro to jQuery tutorial (Period 2)
- Practice basic jQuery (both classes)
Today’s featured website:
- http://histography.io/– jQuery makes a trip through 14 billion years of history seamlessly interactive!
Intro to jQuery, one of the most popular JavaScript libraries
- About:
- jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries because it’s easy to use for adding animations and other interactive elements.
- jQuery is a JavaScript library and you should have a basic understanding of JavaScript to use it.
- Unlike JavaScript, jQuery is NOT built into the browser automatically, so, like other libraries, you need to download it and add it to your webpage by linking to it OR you can use a CDN (we will do this)
- Everything you need to use jQuery is on jQuery.com
- Practice: Open Google Chrome, go to this tutorial, and open the browser console by hitting ctrl-shift-j at the same time.
jQuery Practice
- Working at your own pace, you will complete the following jQuery mini tutorials. You will have the entire class to do this. When you’re stuck, read the instructions or click help. You can also help each other and of course ask me.
- Go to the following link, then click Front End Libraries, jQuery: http://beta.freecodecamp.com/en/map#Basic%20JavaScript. Click on the first tutorial to begin. You will automatically move through as you complete each step. It won’t take 3 hours! There are 18 total mini tutorials.
- When you finish: Let me know and then check out these award-winning sites that use jQuery