The document provides an overview of project management and jQuery. It discusses the history and origins of jQuery, describing how it was created in 2006 and is now maintained by a team led by Timmy Willison. It also defines what jQuery is, explaining that it is a small, fast JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document manipulation, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions across browsers. Additionally, it covers jQuery topics like DOM traversal, events, and AJAX, providing brief descriptions of each.
The document provides an overview of project management and jQuery. It discusses the history and origins of jQuery, describing how it was created in 2006 and is now maintained by a team led by Timmy Willison. It also defines what jQuery is, explaining that it is a small, fast JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document manipulation, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions across browsers. Additionally, it covers jQuery topics like DOM traversal, events, and AJAX, providing brief descriptions of each.
The document provides an overview of project management and jQuery. It discusses the history and origins of jQuery, describing how it was created in 2006 and is now maintained by a team led by Timmy Willison. It also defines what jQuery is, explaining that it is a small, fast JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document manipulation, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions across browsers. Additionally, it covers jQuery topics like DOM traversal, events, and AJAX, providing brief descriptions of each.
The document provides an overview of project management and jQuery. It discusses the history and origins of jQuery, describing how it was created in 2006 and is now maintained by a team led by Timmy Willison. It also defines what jQuery is, explaining that it is a small, fast JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document manipulation, event handling, animation, and AJAX interactions across browsers. Additionally, it covers jQuery topics like DOM traversal, events, and AJAX, providing brief descriptions of each.
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Project Management
Maynard Capil – MIT – June 17, 2017
Learning Objectives • Basic Web Application Architecture • jQuery History • What is jQuery? • DOM Traversal • Event Handling • AjaX • Demo Web Application Architecture jQuery History
• Original release in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John
Resig and was influenced by Dean Edward’s earlier cssQuery library. • It is currently maintained by a team developers led by Timmy Willison with the jQuery selector, engine, Sizzle, being led bu Richard Gibson. • Originally software license history under the CC BY-SA 2.5 and it was relicensed to the MIT license in 2006 • Dropped by GPL in 2012 due to some confusion and is now only MIT licensed. What is jQuery?
• jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript
library • It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handline, animation, and AjAX much simpler with an easy-to-use API that work across multitude of browsers. • Combination of versatility and extensibility • It has changed the wat that millions of people write JavaScript jQuery Traversing
• which means "move through", are used to "find" (or select)
HTML elements based on their relation to other elements.
• Start with one selection and move through that selection
until you reach the elements you desire. jQuery Events Event methods trigger or attach a function to an event handler for the selected elements. jQuery AjaX AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page - without reloading the whole page. References