Getting Started with MooTools

As we get into the final couple of weeks of our Introduction to Programming course, we will look beyond this course at some tools that will help you extend the functionality of your web sites.

This week, we will be looking at the MooTools framework and learning the ropes of how to work this into your web sites.

To truly get rolling with MooTools, you can start with the MooTutorial to get some of the basics under your belt.  Obviously, your budding knowledge of the Javascript language will be of great benefit as you add to your skill set.

Introduction to MooTools for non-programmers should help you to get started with this framework.

For the record, MooTools is not the only popular JavaScript framework available through the open source community.  You can select from frameworks such as JQuery, YUI, Prototype JS, or the many others that seem to spring up overnight.  This list from Six Revisions has a lot of newer resources listed.  Stay current!

I also recommend looking through Smashing Magazine to keep up on current web design trends and tutorials.  You could spend hours there, but I did find a link to some free Javascript tutorials and scripts through a link from SM.

In fact, the combination of MooTools and this Form Validation library might be very helpful as you build your virtual ATM.