Upcoming Courses

Detroit courses are conveniently located right near the Detroit International Airport. The exact location depends on the number of students who come, and you'll be notified plenty of time in advance so you can get your hotel reservation in.

Enjoy time in Chicago! The Chicago courses are located in downtown Chicago, right in the heart of the city. The exact location depends on the number of students who come, and you'll be notified plenty of time in advance so you can get your hotel reservation in.

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Beginning JavaScript for non-Programmers

Are you a web designer who wants to spice up your websites with JavaScript, but don't have the time to become a full-fledged JavaScript programmer? This course is for you!

First, you'll learn just enough JavaScript to get going with it -- what variables are, what functions are.

Next, you'll see how to add JavaScript to your buttons and links. And along the way you'll learn how to add basic animation.

And what's this jQuery stuff everyone's talking about? Oh yeah, you'll learn how to add jQuery plugins to your pages to really soup them up.

Why wait? Register now!

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• The web server / browser client process
• Recommended tools
• Adding JavaScript to a web page
• Writing a JavaScript function
• Calling JavaScript from buttons and links
• Testing and debugging JavaScript with Firebug
• Adding animation to your pages
• Where to go to learn more

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Introduction to JavaScript

You can learn JavaScript.

Ready to advance in your web development career? Want to build powerful web sites that are better than the competitor's? Want to be the rising star at work? This four-day introduction to JavaScript course is for you.

The first step in learning web development is to learn the language of the browser: JavaScript. JavaScript is unlike any other language in that you can quickly and easily write advanced code in it. And the best part is it's EASY TO LEARN.

The even better part: You'll advance in your career. If you're an independent website developer, you'll land better, higher-paying gigs. And people will take notice of your work. If you work for a big company, you'll be the one building the best web sites.

Note: These courses fill up fast and we limit the number of students per course. Reserve your seat today.

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This four day course will teach you JavaScript. Prerequisites: A basic understand of HTML and CSS. Preferably some minimal knowledge of programming (not much—things like variables and what functions are, but those with programming experience are encouraged to take this course too). The topics covered during this intense but exciting course are:

• The web server / browser client process
• Tools of the trade: Firebug, editors, browser plugins, and more
• Full coverage of variables and functions and how they are used in JavaScript
• All about objects in JavaScript: How they are created, how they are used
• Constructs (for loops, while loops, and so on), and other types, including arrays
• How to include JavaScript files in an HTML file
• Debugging JavaScript with Firebug
• What the DOM is and accessing it through JavaScript
• Managing the DOM with JavaScript, and how you can use it to manipulate and make dynamic changes to web pages
• Brief introduction to jQuery
• Brief introduction to Ajax
• And an introduction to HTML5!

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Note: Although the Intro to JavaScript is not required prior to taking Advanced JavaScript, you must have a basic knowledge of JavaScript before enrolling in the advanced course.

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This four day course transforms JavaScript programmers into professional software developers.

• Reviewing how web servers generate pages
• Functions as first-class objects and why this is vital to mastering JavaScript and jQuery
• All about the “this” reference
• Extending built-in JavaScript classes
• Type conversion, Passing by Reference
• JavaScript patterns and practices, including how to implement private members
• Understanding closure and making it work
• The prototype architecture and when (and when not) to use the new operator
• Advanced debugging techniques

Advanced JavaScript and jQuery also includes complete training of jQuery, including:

• Selectors, attributes, traversing, manipulating elements
• Events
• Storing data in elements
• The jQueryUI components
• Two full days are devoted to advanced JavaScript, and two full days are devoted to jQuery.

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We want our clients to be happy. Therefore, we allow cancelation, but with restrictions.

Please understand that our courses need a minimum number of students to attend. If you cancel and the course drops below that threshold, it can impact everybody involved, and cause great expense to us and possibly the other students. That's why we have to maintain the following policy.

After registering for a course, you may cancel up until two weeks prior to the course for a 90% refund.

From the time period starting two weeks prior to the course and ending one week prior to the start of the course, you may cancel for a 50% refund.

During the week prior to the course except for the two days prior to the course, you may cancel and receive a 30% refund.

No refunds will be granted starting two days prior to the course.

By registering for the courses, you agree to this cancelation policy.

Our founder, Jeff Cogswell, is, first and foremost, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience. While leading Cogsmedia Training, he continues to work as one of the industry’s most sought-after programmers, continually refining his skills and keeping up with the newest technologies. But he’s also one of the finest teachers around. For him, teaching is an art form that goes back to his days in graduate school teaching Mathematics at Western Michigan University. Teaching is not for everyone; as such Jeff only accepts the finest teachers into his organization. While the big companies are hiring lecturers who have little or no industry experience, Cogsmedia only brings in experts who also have the unique talent of teaching.

Additionally, Jeff Cogswell has written many critically-acclaimed books, including several in the popular “For Dummies” series, as well as one of the first books about C++, the award-winning Simple C++.

The Cogsmedia teaching techniques are unique and proven—just ask his clients at companies such as Amway, Alpha Software, Probatum, and PECO-Facet.

Our classes are small and personalized. Our instructors are right there, working alongside the students, ready to answer questions.

Our offices are located at 8050 Summerfield Suite 7, Lambertville MI. Soon we'll be moving into a larger space, however; we'll keep you posted on our address change.

You can email us at info@cogsmedia.com. Or you can email our founder directly at jeff@cogsmedia.com.

You can call us at 734-347-6002.