Javascript
Overview
JavaScript is a programming language for use in
HTML
pages Invented in 1995 at Netscape Corporation
(LiveScript)
• JavaScript has nothing to do with Java
• JavaScript programs
are run by an interpreter built
into the user's web browser
(not on the server)
JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else.
What is even more exciting however is the functionality built on top of the client-side JavaScript language. So-called Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide you with extra superpowers to use in your JavaScript code.
APIs are ready-made sets of code building blocks that allow a developer to implement programs that would otherwise be hard or impossible to implement.
/ Inspiring with Students
Here we'll actually start looking at some code, and while doing so, explore what actually happens when you run some JavaScript in your page.
