AppDev - JavaScript 1.8

JavaScript is the programming language of the World Wide Web, the code that makes a Web page come alive. Along with the objects exposed by a Web page’s Document Object Model (DOM), the language lets you manipulate a page dynamically and provide instant responses to user actions, with or without ongoing interactions with the Web server. JavaScript is arguably also the most widely used programming language in the world, primarily because of its use in Web browsers. The language itself is a prototype-based interpreted scripting language that has dynamic and functional characteristics, is weakly typed and supports object-oriented programming. JavaScript long ago outgrew its scripting roots to become a solid, general-purpose programming language, suitable for large-scale development. In this course you’ll learn about the origins of JavaScript and its core language features, giving you a solid foundation on which to take advantage of the many benefits of this versatile language.

In this course, you will learn:
A brief history of JavaScript, how to use it and the lexical structure of the language
How to use JavaScript's data types, values and variables to work with data
How to construct expressions using the various JavaScript operators
How statements make things happen in JavaScript applications