Video Course Review: jQuery UI Development

5.00/5 (1 vote)

Mar 17, 2014

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This is a review about the Video Course of jQuery UI Development

Introduction

Today I am going to review a Video Course, which has been designed by Packt Publishing.
The Video Course is jQuery UI Development .
The Author of this Video Course is Ben Fhala.

Getting Started with jQuery UI [25:05 minutes]
- Getting Started with jQuery UI
- An Overview of jQuery
- An Overview of jQuery UI
- Working with jQuery Locally or through a CDN
- Choosing Our Delivery Options in jQuery UI
- Creating Our First Page Using jQuery UI Widgets
- What Tools Am I Using?
Working with the CSS Framework [21:58 minutes]
- All about CSS
- Adding Our Second Widget
- Switching Styles in jQuery UI
- The Library Minification Functionality
- Optimizing Your Project
- Themes - Under the Hood
- Creating Your Own Themes Using ThemeRoller
Working with Widgets [27:56 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- Creating a Dialog Widget
- Options, Methods, and Events
- Working with Widget Options
- Changing a Dialog's Title
- Discovering the Widget's Methods
- Adding Interactivity with Callbacks
Adding Interaction [21:24 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- Integrating Events into Widgets
- Updating the Site When a Widget is Dropped
- Being More Efficient with Events
- Digging into Event Properties: the ui Property
- Exploring the Event Object
- Cleaning up Our Project
More about Widgets [27:13 minutes]
- Setting up Expectations
- jQuery UI Tooltip
- jQuery UI Spinner
- jQuery UI Menu
- jQuery UI Slider
- jQuery UI Accordion
- jQuery UI Tabs
Course Recap [1:53 minutes]

If you want to save hundreds of hours on building your own components, this video course is ideal for you.
This video series will demonstrate how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for web applications.
A working knowledge of JavaScript and a familiarity with jQuery would be useful, but are not vital.

I have spent just over 2 hours watching this jQuery UI video series. I have to say this, it's simply awesome.
The author has explained the details with step-by-step examples, useful tips, and quick tricks. And most importantly, he has explained the best practices and optimization tips as well.
Even though I have a prior experience with the jQuery UI, I learnt some UI components which I have never used with my current applications. So I hope now I can use those components with my next app without any problem after this video series. Thanks to the author.
The most interesting section of this course for me is the way the author has explained about the "Creating Your Own Themes Using Theme Roller". It's really nice.
The author has provided the source code where it is required for this course which is really helpful when we do our own hands-on practical sessions.

The key annoying issue about the downloaded video series is, viewers have to open each and every clip, roughly around 5 minutes each. It's a really annoying experience. So I would like to suggest putting all as one downloaded video clip for the users. Then users can enjoy the video series without any interruptions.
It's better if the source code of this course can be put on the JsFiddle. Then users can easily change things and test live. It'll give a huge value for this video series. I performed a sample for that.It can be found at Jsfiddle jQuery UI.

I would like to recommend this video course for all the novice and intermediate jQuery developers who are willing to learn jQuery UI framework.
I have to assign a special thanks for Packet Publishers, who afforded me this opportunity to review this video course.
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this video series and I hope you will feel the same too.
Thanks to the Author Ben Fhala as well for creating this kind of a video series for the jQuery UI. Keep up the good work. :)