JAVASCRIPT
THE BASICS
Introduction
History
appeared in '95
created in 10 days
by
Brendan
Eich
@
Netscape
HISTORY
over the time it had different names
Mocha
LiveScript
JavaScript
ECMAScript is the name of the official standard
HISTORY
there are also different implementation of the
ECMAScript specification
JScript
ActionScript
TypeScript
and many ECMAScript engines including
V8 (Google Chrome, Node.js & V8.NET)
Chakra (JScript - Internet Explorer)
SpiderMonkey (Mozilla)
SquirrelFish (Apple's WebKit)
HISTORY
there are also different implementation of the
ECMAScript specification
JScript
ActionScript
TypeScript
and many ECMAScript engines including
V8 (Google Chrome, Node.js & V8.NET)
Chakra (JScript - Internet Explorer)
SpiderMonkey (Mozilla)
SquirrelFish (Apple's WebKit)
What
is
JavaScript?
JavaScript
is
the
programming language
of the web
a part of the well known trio that all web developers must learn
HTML to specify the
content
CSS
which is the
presentation
layer
JavaScript
which adds the
behavior
&
is used to make your web pages more interactive &
give them some special effects
JavaScript
=== Java ?
NO!
even if the
name is
misleading
except
for a
superficial syntactic resemblance
JavaScript is completely different
JavaScript
has
outgrown
its
scripting-language roots
to become a robust and efficient
general-purpose language
it is well-suited to
object-oriented
&
functional
programming styles
both client or server side
JavaScript
is a
high-level / dynamic / untyped / interpreted
widespread
&
popular
language
Ecmascript
ECMAScript 5.0 released in December 2009
ECMAScript 5.1 released in 2011
ECMAScript 2015 (6) in June 2015
ECMAScript 2016 released in June 2016
Day I: JavaScript - The Basics - Introduction
By Andrei Cacio
Day I: JavaScript - The Basics - Introduction
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