Programming By Stealth

Bart Busschots joins us again for his continuing series called Programming By Stealth. In this episode Bart explains how to embed JavaScript into a webpage, how to control when JavaScript executes and then teaches us about the browser event model. Using this model he teaches us how we can change things on a web page when the user clicks or after a defined length of time, or at time intervals. It’s our first time outside of the sandbox so it’s great fun to manipulate web pages and have them do our bidding! Bart’s full tutorial is at: bartbusschots.ie/… and it includes some downloadable files that are very useful for following along.

In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart ties up the last of the loose ends related to web forms. He teaches us about form events, which are critical to making our web forms not only accessible to screen readers but to allow our users to tab around to the different fields and interact with them without using a mouse. We learn about the keypress event and learn what it means for 31 to be the space key. Bart’s excellent tutorial is at over at bartbusschots.ie/…

In this installment of Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots, we finally break out of the sandbox and learn how to use the console in a web browser to start taking control of web browsers. Bart's full tutorial is available at bartbusschots.ie/….

In episode #449, Bart Busschots walked us through how he'd solve the first half of the JavaScript challenges from PBS 19. This week we finish the second half of the 5th problem about Complex Numbers. Like the last episode, we're giving you the audio in the podcast, but if you'd like to watch the video of Bart building the solutions, you can see that over on podfeet.com.

Bart Busschots got the crazy idea that we should do this episode as a video so that he could solve the JavaScript challenges from PBS 19 real time and talk through it as he solved them. I figured it would be mean to drop a giant video into your feed, so this is actually just the audio which is cool too, but you can go watch the video on podfeet.com.

In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes us through the final stages of learning JavaScript within the playground. Now that we know about objects, we need to re-visit the arguments object present in every JavaScript function. We need to take a detailed look at the typeof operator, and we need to look at some built-in objects and functions JavaScript provides. We also need to look at how JavaScript handles regular expressions, and finally, we need to introduce the concept of exception handling. Bart's full written tutorial is available at bartbusschots.ie/....

In this continuing series with Bart Busschots, we get a more detailed look at objects, and then we look at some standard functions and objects that are built into JavaScript. We also take a proper look at two operators we've seen before, typeof and instanceof. Bart's full written tutorial is available at bartbusschots.ie/....

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes our understanding of functions to the next level. The techniques we encounter today would be considered advanced techniques in most other languages, and you could spend years developing in Java and never encounter an anonymous function. However, because of how JavaScript is integrated into HTML documents, these techniques are considered fundamental in JavaScript, and anonymous functions are a dime a dozen! Before we delve into anonymous functions, we’ll start by taking a deeper look at how JavaScript deals with function arguments. Bart's full tutorial is available at bartbusschots.ie/....

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots is back with Programming By Stealth episode 15 of x where he's going to teach us about JavaScript functions. he'll twist our brains a bit with recursive functions but it's a fun ride. And there's even a challenge at the end! And as always, here's a link to Bart's terrific tutorial for the episode: bartbusschots.ie/...

We're back to Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots where he explains how to create Arrays in Javascript and how to use "while" and "for" to create loops to access the information in Arrays. It's a little bit of a propeller beanie episode but we powered through till I got it! And as always, here's a link to Bart's terrific tutorial for the episode: bartbusschots.ie/....

In this week's episode of the continuing series with Bart Busschots, he introduces the concept of conditionals. We'll learn whether boogers is true or false, how Javascript handles text strings and numbers in comparisons (what's bigger or smaller), how equality is really three different things, and we'll learn about logical operators like AND, OR and NOT to be used in conditional statements. Bart has updated the Javascript Playground he created so be sure to grab the new version. The entire tutorial is available here: bartbusschots.ie/....

In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots dips our baby toe into Javascript. We learn the very basic building blocs, including how to make statements, how to make comments, three rules for variables, the difference between strings and numbers and what you can do with them, operators and concatenation. With the exception of the modulus section, I understood everything he said! Learn why this episode ends with the line, "Find out next week if boogers is true or false!" Find Bart's detailed tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/... including a link to his JavaScript Playground.

Finally, after many months of making us wait, Bart has decided it's time to look at tables on web pages. We’ll start by describing the HTML markup for tables, and then look at how to style them with CSS. Full tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/...

Check out the latest installment of Programming By Stealth from Bart Busschots. He takes me through four new CSS methods to style lists, he teaches me more CSS selectors, and then we get to play with pseudo-classes. It's great fun and I think I actually understood most of it! As always with the Programming By Stealth series, it's highly recommended that you follow along with Bart's amazing tutorial here: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2016/03/04/programming-by-stealth-10-of-x-yet-more-css/

This week Bart introduces a visual tool he created just for us (well, for me) to help us really understand how the box model works in CSS. You can see his tool here: bartbusschots.ie/... and follow along with his detailed tutorial on More CSS Positioning here: bartbusschots.ie/....

Buckle up everyone - in this Installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart will dig in deep on explaining how to position the blocks we've learned about before onto our web page using CSS. It's a tough hill to climb but Bart stays patient with me till I THINK I've got it! You can find Bart's amazing tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/....

Bart Busschots joins us again for part 7 of his series Programming by Stealth. In this instalment we’ll build on our basic understanding of CSS from previous instalment. We’ll start with some new CSS selectors, in the process, introduce two new HTML tag attributes, then we’ll move on to the CSS box model. Each HTML tag is represented in the page as a box, and all those boxes can be manipulated with CSS. Find Bart's detailed tutorial at bartbusschots.ie/....

In the 6th installment of Bart Busschots' Programming by Stealth series, he introduces the concept of CSS to allow us to format our html pages. He gives us an overview of terminology, explains the different ways to add CSS to an HTML document, explains the basic syntax, and finally gives us some examples of text attribute changes. You can find his detailed shownotes at bartbusschots.ie/.... Also note that he's now created a short url for us to be able to see all of the Programming By Stealth tutorials all in one place (along with an adorable logo) at http://bartb.ie/pbs.

In this week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond we have Bart Busschots with another installment of Programming by Stealth. He covers the syntax for images and links in HTML and the attributes you can apply and more importantly why you should apply them. He promises that with the first 5 episodes under our belts we'll be ready to move on to understanding CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets. You can read along with his detailed tutorial and download the example files at \bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/12/27/programming-by-stealth-5-of-x-images-links/.

In the previous installment Bart introduced us to the concept of block-level tags, and in-line tags. Block level tags define blocks of text like headers, paragraphs and lists, and starting a new block-level tag generally starts a new line in the page. Inline tags on the other hand effect a part of a block, and opening an inline tag generally doesn’t start a new line. In the previous installment we looked at some of the most important block-level tags, in this installment we’ll look at some of the most common in-line tags.