Javascript

In this post we will see what JavaScript is and what do we need in order to learn JavaScript.

What is JavaScript?
It is the most popular and widely used scripting language on the internet. It is a friendly language. The reasons why I call it as a friendly language are

1. It is very easy to learn next to HTML.


2. You need not compile it like C or Java.


3. It performs a lot of useful tasks that are more interactive to users like responding to clicks, answering queries, validating data and many more like this. Most of the interactive websites like google maps, gmail etc use JavaScript.

Ok, something said about what is JavaScript we will look into what do we need to start coding JavaScript.

1. HTML knowledge. If you don’t have any HTML knowledge, please go through my other blog which I had created for HTMLBEGINNERS to understand HTML.



2. Where will we type the JavaScript code? We need an editor right. Yes, you will need to have a text editor to do coding. If you have windows installed in your machine then NOTEPAD can be used a text editor. Otherwise Editors like Edit Plus can be used. I use Notepad always.



3. Assume that you had written the JavaScript code on the notepad now how will you run or execute it. You will need to have a web browser that supports JavaScript. All most all the web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and Safari support JAVASCRIPT. So you need not worry on this also, if you have a web browser then you can start coding JavaScript now only.