What is JavaScript? A Beginners Guide to the Coding Language
So what exactly is JavaScript and how does it relate in the whole spectrum of learning code.
Well that’s what we’re going to explore and breakdown some of the core concepts of the language.
JavaScript can be defined as many things, but I would like to explore it in its essence that I found easy to understand and thus giving me more confidence in learning the language.
Before we begin defining the javascript I want to define what a script in coding is and what all programming languages share in common.
A script is simply a set of instructions a computer can follow to complete a task.
Make sense?
Ok so now JavaScript, which ironically has no relation to the programming language java, is a set of instructions given to your web browser to complete a task.
Overall JavaScript creates interactivity to websites.
For example, when you press a button on a webpage and then an action follows after, in other words something happens…
You have just seen JavaScript at work.
But don’t think that JavaScript is only about pressing buttons.
