9:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, 1999

JavaScript Primer (a.m.) and The Power of JavaScript (p.m.)

Registrants $150 all day or $75 half day; non-registrants $100 half day; $200 all day.Pre-registration Required. Edison Building, 130 S. Ninth St.

Hands-on: Pentium PCs with Windows. Limited to 20 participants.

INSTRUCTORS: Ulrich Woermann, University of Bern, Switzerland and Tyler Anderson
Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah

Who Should Attend: Anyone who wants to add interactivity to a Web site without too much effort. Pre-requisite for morning session: a working knowledge of HTML (especially forms) and a basic understanding of programming. Pre-requisite for afternoon session: attendance at the morning session or fundamental knowledge of JavaScript.

Overview: JavaScript allows you to control the various elements of HTML, thus creating real interactivity. JavaScript is not as powerful as compiled programming languages such as C++ or Java, but it is much easier to learn and to implement.

Morning Session: Target Audience: Anyone who wants to add interactivity to a web site without too much effort. Prerequisite: good knowledge of HTML (especially with forms) and a basic understanding of programming. Setting: Hands-on PC Pentium computers with Windows OS. Limited to 20 participants. Content: After communicating the essential facts on how to integrate JavaScript into HTML pages, we will demonstrate examples such as how to change an image (rollover effect), change the content of a frame, open a new window, and simple calculations. We will cover debugging with the Netscape Console and Internet Explorer, MIME type mapping on the WWW-Server, and resources on JavaScript such as books, URLs, and mailing lists.

Afternoon Session: Target Audience: Anyone who wants to add sophisticated interactivity to a web site and is willing to do some effort. Prerequisite: attendance at the morning session or fundamental knowledge of JavaScript. Setting: Demonstration and Presentation. Content: We will address the issue of composing elaborate scripts, methods for building upon what others have already done, and more advanced features of JavaScript such as arrays, cookies, browser and platform specific adaptations, and DHTML. Examples will include random generator, browser and OS dependent pages, interactive quiz template, and differential count of blood cells. Tools such as ScriptBuilder, BBEdit, and HomeSite will also be discussed.

Tyler Anderson
Eccles Health Sciences Library
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
tyler@glaid.com
 
Dr. med. Ulrich Woermann (ULI)
Institut fuer Aus-, Weiter- und Fortbildung IAWF
Abteilung fuer Unterrichtsmedien AUM
Medizinische Fakult Bern
Inselspital 38
3010 Bern///=46ax.: +41 31 381 93 22
woermann@aum.unibe.ch