From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript

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- [Instructor] Before we get started, there are a few things that you should know that will help you get the most out of this course. Now this is a medium advanced topic which presupposes that you've got some experience with SharePoint. If you're not comfortable with things like adding and configuring web parts, you may be in a little over your head. My recommendation is that you check out one of the more general SharePoint classes first like SharePoint Online Essentials or my SharePoint Data Management class. Also, I am not going to teach you how to write JavaScript. My purpose is to give you an understanding of some of the things that you can do in SharePoint with JavaScript because I think that explanation is sorely lacking and I will show you examples to illustrate my explanations, but you're still going to be on the hook for learning how to code on your own. If you already have some familiarity with JavaScript before starting this course, that's great. This is also true for HTML and CSS. Knowing something about these is going to make this course a lot more understandable for you. If you don't have this knowledge already, once again there are great courses in the library. I highly recommend both JavaScript Essentials Training and HTML Essentials Training as great introductions. This should go without saying, but you'll also want a SharePoint site to play with and you've got to have permissions that allow you to add web parts and edit pages. There are some other tools that I'm going to be suggesting you install and use and once again, I won't spend any great amount of time on them. Although I'll give you some basic information about where to find them and how to use them for specific tasks, you're going to be on the hook for getting comfortable with them on your own. One last note. I'm using SharePoint Online and Office 365 for my demonstrations. If you've got an on-premise instance of SharePoint, your experience will be a little different. But for the most part, the techniques and operations will be more or less the same. So with these conditions, are you ready to start? Okay.

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