Introduction to JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas

Screencast of a tutorial given at UMass Lowell on 2/11/13 by Curran Kelleher on JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas. Topics covered include fundamentals of the JavaScript language, creating an HTML5 page with a Canvas on it, drawing rectangles to the Canvas, and animation.

Here’s a similar, but better, introductory screencast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIpA8k167gU

Here’s the next screencast in the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0T7lviBnY – a more advanced tutorial with an interactive physics simulation.

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