Java Reference
In-Depth Information
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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:
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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.
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Unlike many programming languages, JavaScript requires just a text editor to start creating
code. Something like Windows Notepad is fine for getting started, though more extensive
tools will prove valuable once you get more experience.
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JavaScript code is embedded into the web page itself, along with the HTML. Its existence is
marked out by the use of
<script/>
elements. As with HTML, the script executes from the
top of the page and works down to the bottom, interpreting and executing the code state-
ment by statement.
