Dissecting the First JavaScript Application You Wrote - 03

Comforting talk! Thanks.

Hello Dan, I also notice the title thing although I don't think it was necessarily bad, you know that kind of things makes you think critically about what you're doing, for me it was like: "OK... I don't think this is right, I'm gonna try it the other way to see if it works" and it did, so that's part of the challenge, to think for yourself.

Thanks for the videos.
  

Dude we're not in 1998 anymore, stop posting * like this.

Great educational presentation.

@stupid: Valid point, profanity aside.  The intent is to create a foundation for creating Win 8 apps, which is a different take on JavaScript than traditional browsers (though I obviously am starting there ... it makes it easier since everyone has Notepad and a web browser.)  And, I would like to add, from teaching .NET for 11 years now, every day new developers are coming online and looking for resources about everything -- and programming practices in the JavaScript world change often.  This is a snapshot of current programming heuristics in 2012 which are vastly different from 1998, I think you will agree.  Best wishes!

@Jedrek: Thanks!

@YamilG: I think your comment is referencing the previous version of the video which had a bug in it (mistyped ... fixed with new video).  I post this in case someone is confused by YamilG's comment.  Thank you for the kind words!

Really it's good presentation.

Dude! You rock!
Great job!
Can't wait to watch the next one!

Bob, great fundamentals video. I come from a VB background and the 2 things that always break my javascript code are forgetting the line terminator and case sensitivity, Function() doesn't work. I'm still not sure why anyone would want to create a case sensitive programming language

I have VS 2012 Prof. - Does Visual web developer express 2010 comes inbuild in it

@Nik: You are more than good to go.  

I'd like to say that I spent the whole day, today, looking for tutorials on the internet that I could use to learn javascript. I was about to give up when I found your videos and I'm thinking - these are really very nice people who really know what they're doing! The quality of your material is just astonishing!

Congratulations,
Jorge

PS Now I believe I can learn.

@Jorge: Awesome ... funny how what you're looking for is always in the last place you look ... 

Bob,grate thanks.

Do you know if there are any reference materials that would correlate JavaScript instructions/functions to Assembler instructions? I spent some time really studying the 02 Lesson code and was able to translate what it was doing into Assembler, which I understand a whole lot more. It would be nice if there were a table out there somewhere that could do the translation a lot faster, act as a cheat sheet. Do you know of any?
Thanks!

@Robin: Yowza!  There might be a resource like that out there (I mean, there's like a bajillion pages on the internet) but if there is I don't know where it would be.  Sorry.  If you know Assembler, I think the hard part for you is already over -- I mean, that's no small task!  I would recommend you watch the very last video in this series for book recommendations.  You might get more out of Douglas Crockford's JavaScript book than anything else.  It is considered the definitive resource.  Hope that helps!

We like Bob :)

Bob sir please can I que u 1 thing that on windows based forums programs u have to concentrate on the classes of that only because these programmers these days have the mind to do more things at one time so u can record your classes of programmes based on windows forums.

You will have a nice profit of membership on your site, i.e.,LearnVisualStudio.net.

That is the suggestion from myself and hope that you will try to seek what i'm saying..

So Thanxxxxxxx

Your videos are really awesome and they are in a very good concept and a perfect required pace.

So keep it upp. Have nice  days.........

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a moment ago, SamSmith wrote

Bob sir please can I que u 1 thing that on windows based forums programs u have to concentrate on the classes of that only because these programmers these days have the mind to do more things at one time so u can record your classes of programmes based on windows forums.

You will have a nice profit of membership on your site, i.e.,LearnVisualStudio.net.

That is the suggestion from myself and hope that you will try to seek what i'm saying..

So Thanxxxxxxx

Your videos are really awesome and they are in a very good concept and a perfect required pace.

So keep it upp. Have nice  days........

Hi Bob !

I had some questions .

As You mentioned in this video  that its a non-standard stuff when we use innerHtml, what should we use instead ?

Thanks in advance.

@hemantb: As you get further along into this series, you'll discover a way to do "DOM selection" using jQuery.  I'm willing to bet that you'll prefer jQuery DOM selection over these techniques I teach early on.  So, I would advise to just keep watching and you'll get a more complete picture as you push through.

Bob in the code you write
var myTitle = document.getElementById('title');
title.innerHTML = myValue; // it should be myTitle yet it still works - is that a bug or a JS feature?

@Ivan Yosifov: I'm looking at the downloadable source code ... this is what I show:

    function substitute() {
      var myValue = document.getElementById('myTextBox').value;

      if (myValue.length == 0) {
        alert('Please enter a real value in the text box!');
        return;
      }
      var myTitle = document.getElementById('title');
      myTitle.innerHTML = myValue;
    }

But yes ... I ran into what you described quite accidentally.  In some cases, you can reference an element by its id attribute. However, I think that is a bug.  What I demo (above) is the appropriate way to do it.