Video Course Review: 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.

Course Contents

1. 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?
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Course Recap [1:53 minutes]

What You Will Learn From this Video Course

• Set up a custom jQuery UI library
• Minify your library and make it more efficient
• Get to grips with components and how to skin them quickly
• Use the ThemeRoller to create custom themes in a jiffy
• Understand how events work in jQuery UI
• Hands-on demonstrations with detailed explanations and code
• Drag-and-drop elements using the jQuery UI features
• Work with over 9 key components

Who this Video Course is For

• 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.

Pros

• 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.

Cons

• 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.

Errata

• There is a problem in video "video3_4" after the 4.46 to 4.48 minutes... there is nothing in between that time range.

Reference

• jQuery UI Development [Video Course]

Conclusion

• 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. :)