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Summary
At this point, you should have a feel for what JavaScript is and what it can do. In particular, this brief
introduction covered the following:
You looked into the process the browser follows when interpreting your web page. It goes
through the page element by element (parsing) and acts upon your HTML tags and JavaScript
code as it comes to them.
Unlike many programming languages, JavaScript requires just a text editor to start creating
code. Something like Windows Notepad is fi ne for getting started, though more extensive tools
will prove valuable once you get more experience.
JavaScript code is embedded into the web page itself, along with the HTML. Its existence
is marked out by the use of <script> tags. As with HTML, script executes from the top of
the page and works down to the bottom, interpreting and executing the code statement by
statement.
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