JAVASCRIPT
Introduction
History
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
Chakra (JScript - Internet Explorer)
SpiderMonkey (Mozilla)
SquirrelFish (Apple's WebKit)
HISTORY
there are also different implementation of the
ECMAScript specification
JScript
ActionScript
Chakra (JScript - Internet Explorer)
SpiderMonkey (Mozilla)
SquirrelFish (Apple's WebKit)
What
is
JavaScript?
JavaScript
is
the
programming language
of the web
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 &
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
Day I: JavaScript - The Basics - Introduction
By Andrei Cacio
Day I: JavaScript - The Basics - Introduction
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