In the last period of the class where we had to go through chapters one and two, I told Dr. Drake about my very minimum knowledge of JavaScript. He directly wondered if I have heard of w3schools and my answer was yes, I have heard of it. Now, have I ever used it?? No. When I got home today I went to that site to find that they have tutorials for almost all the modern languages that are used nowadays. I'm assuming that everyone in the class have at some point visited that website. In the upcoming paragraphs, a discussion of these tutorials would be provided.
To start off, here is the website link if you ever care to check it out; it's w3schools. Once you go there, you are going to find more than five icons at the top of the page that are labeled HTML, CSS, XML, JAVASCRIPT, ASP, PHP, SQL, and MORE. the tutorials I'm planning to look at are JavaScript and XML-DOM language tutorials. Since I have no previous knowledge of JavaScript what so ever and since Dr. Drake advised me to go there and start training, I have actually started the JavaScript tutorial. I haven't gone far yet but at least I know a little bit now. I believe that with time I'm going to have a better understanding. I have also decided to learn DOM because Dr. Drake told us that we are going to use it at some point in the near future . I'm not going to get deep in it but I'm just going to get the general understanding.
One cool thing to mention about w3schools is their category listings. If you click on the more icon, a new page would load that have the tutorials divided into different categories such as browser scripting, XML languages, and HTML & CSS languages. From this categories you can choose what ever topic you desire. For example the JavaScript is found under the browser scripting tutorials. The XML-DOM language is found under the XML languages tutorials. If you already know the language but you want to look at references and examples, these are also available on the website. Check out the icons on the top left that says references and the examples icon.
Overall, this is a very good resource to learn of in addition to e-Training.
Yes, There is a lot of good information at W3Schools. I actually had references to some of the sites in my first Blog... Unfortunately, I didn't reference them as W3Schools.
ReplyDeleteI googled for some tutorials as well. Because of my german OS, Google offered me the german de.selfhtml.org as a high ranked result.
ReplyDeleteFor me, at the moment, these switching between english an german is very difficult, so that I ignored that result.
I have not heared of W3CSchool before class. But the tutorials they offer look very simple. I just clicked through one and it is very helpful.
Ahmed, I thank you for this post. This will ease my life (in IS449W and more ;)
Thanks Ahmed, we can definitely use this as a reference for this class and other IT classes we take. E training is a good resource for learning when your a lost.
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