Lab #3 Reflection Journal

Web Client Programming

            In this lab we were assigned 5 exercises using jQuery in provided HTML documents. Each of the HTML documents provided instructions on how to fix the problem with it using different techniques of jQuery. This was very exciting because this is the first time we are using jQuery in class and this lab gives us an insight in the things that are to come in future labs and projects that involve jQuery. The first exercise we had to change the color of the text by what was imputed in the text box. This required the use of a function whenever the button was clicked upon. The second exercise was about changing the CSS of object using jQuery. With these first two exercises we are learning how to change objects within HTML documents by utilizing jQuery.

            The third exercise is creating a User Interface of a page using jQuery. In order to do this we had to first use a custom function which is provided by jQuery which would add the UI to the HTML document. We then had to add it to each one of the lists in order for the UI to be in each one of the lists. The fourth exercise of the lab is creating triangles whenever the button was click for this one we used the .draw function that was given. The function was used for each shape as well as the "Clear Canvas" button. The final exercise was about linking a plugin to make the webpage interactive.
These are all the jQuery exercises in lab 3 and each of them will help me in Web Design because its teaching me things that I never learned before and how I can utilize these techniques in my webpages.




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