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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Summary
During this lesson, you’ve learned what web scripting is and what JavaScript is. You’ve also learned how to insert a script into an HTML document or refer to an external JavaScript file, what sorts of things JavaScript can do, and how JavaScript differs from other web languages. You also wrote a simple JavaScript program and tested it using a web browser. You also learned how to modify and test scripts, and you saw what happens when a JavaScript program runs into an error.
In the process of writing this script, you have used some of JavaScript’s basic features: variables, the document.write statement, and functions for working with dates and times.
Now that you’ve learned a bit of JavaScript syntax, you’re ready to continue on to learn all sorts of things about web development before settling in to writing interactive websites using client-side scripting.