Advisory Committee Follow-up – JavaScript
When I met with our advisory committee earlier in the month we discussed teaching JavaScript in the web development program. Unfortunately, our course has a limited duration and we just can’t teach it all (don’t I wish). Since our course is designed to teach students entry-level web development skills I feel that we cannot delve too deeply into JavaScript. I discussed this issue with our advisors and they agreed that students should have a general understanding of JavaScript and what it accomplishes when they complete the course, but if they want advanced scripting skills they should take additional coursework online or at a school that offers advanced JavaScript training.
This morning when I was visiting Joshuaink, a great site that I like to read, I found that John Oxton had posted a similar question to his visitors in Is there a hole in my skill set?. This is a great “conversation” about the need for JavaScript as a front end developer.
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November 28th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
Well, I am just learning the new, standard way of scripting. I think it is very useful for enhancing a site, particularly where forms are used. However, I do realize that you cannot possibly rely on your audience to have scripting enabled. Indeed, US-CERT has just issued an advisory warning of an IE vulnerability when scripting is enabled. They advise all IE users to disable scripting!
Also, most handheld devices, as well as some PC browsers, do not even support JavaScript at all.
I do avoid traditional ways of writing scripts. Most of those free scripts available on the web were written before XHTML came around, and are largely incompatible with XHTML documents.
December 1st, 2005 at 4:58 pm
Robin,
I listened to the podcast and enjoyed it. Now I want to learn how to do that.
Good job,
marjie