Part 1The world of JavaScript

The image shows a mobile taking a picture of a pathway with trees on either side.

We are going to start our journey by looking at the world of JavaScript. We’ll begin by considering just what it is that a programming language does. Then we’ll investigate the JavaScript programming language and discover how JavaScript programs get to run on your computer. We’ll learn how web pages provide an environment for JavaScript and how to use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create containers for our JavaScript programs. We’ll discover just how powerful modern web browsers are as software development tools and how to have a conversation with JavaScript from within a ...

Get Begin to Code with JavaScript now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial