Do we need to learn HTML and CSS? This is a question I see posted all of the time on various different forums and discussion groups I am on. Of course, it’s not usually formatted just like this. It’s often asked in a manner similar to: And I will be honest, it is a valid…
Angular is a development platform built on TypeScript. (Remember TypeScript is a based on JavaScript, so it’s easy to move from one to another as a developer.) It includes a component-based framework for building scalable web applications and a collection of well-integrated libraries that cover a wide variety of features, including routing, forms management, client-server…
A software framework is an abstraction in which generic software can be selectively changed. This additional user-written code creates application-specific software. It is said a library is to solve a specific problem, or a small set of problems for a developer. Where a framework is said to help solve a comprehensive collection of common problems…
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It simplifies HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is written in JavaScript, and designed for web front end applications only. You can get a copy of jQuery at: https://jquery.com/ Why Use jQuery jQuery provides an easy-to-use…
Trying to list the most popular languages can be a real challenge. This is because the popularity of programming languages vary over time and depend on the specific field or application. For example, Python is widely used in fields such as Machine Learning and scientific computing, while JavaScript is one of the core technologies of…
There are many reasons why there are different programming languages. Evolving Technology One of the main reasons is that technology is always evolving, and as more technologies come into being and advance, we need more tools that can make use of these technologies. You might remember from previous classes with me, we’ve talked about how…
As you’ve seen, you can store data as a string in the web storage systems, and that is it. It’s fine if you want to store a single number, or a string. But what about more complex data, which is harder to convert to a string. Converting Data to JSON Strings Well, using JSON (JavaScript…
To use Web Storage, we need to be both using HTML5 and JavaScript. Luckily Bootstrap is based on the HTML5 so that makes that part easy. To work with web elements, we can use JavaScript to access them, or jQuery, which is a little easier to identify individual elements in a script. Luckily for us,…
