Week 9

Ok, so belatedly continuing with the summaries of the weeks thus far. You (hopefully) will already have seen evidence of my amazing Javascript skills if you're reading this post. I was going to throw some jQuery in here too, but don't want to blow anyone's mind completely yet.

We started working with Javascript in week 9, using it initially to prompt the page user for some basic information, and moving on to produce output based on the user's inputs. This is basically what Javascript is for - to make the website more dynamic for the user by validating date entered on the client-side, changing or displaying page elements, or adding animations or sounds to a page. Having used it since on my client-side project, I have a better idea now of how it all works, but still feel it's an area I could improve on. Finding out the errors in your Javascript can be a difficult thing to do - Firebug is meant to help that process, but figuring out how to use Firebug properly for this purpose is something I've yet to work out fully.

From week 9, I also have lecture notes from the Intro to Computing module where we covered Application layers. An *EXAMS* note at the top of that section in my notes suggests that may be a topic to appear on the forthcoming exam paper - must stop blogging & get studying.