Beginners JAVASCRIPT

[resurepus]

Let's start with the very basics

Like human spoken languages (ex: French, English) programming languages have rules (grammar, spelling etc) and meaning for certain special key words. In English the word 'throw' has a meaning; it means to 'toss', 'pitch', 'fling', something or someone. One such 'key word' in JavaScript is the word 'function'; this keyword tells the computer that this is the beginning of code (programming code) that does something, or in other words, takes an action. Here's a made-up example:

function: Pop up a box and say: 'What's up Jimmy! '

This made up example (not real programming!) is telling the computer to pop open a box and say: 'What's up Jimmy!'

Just for the curious, I will now show you the real way to do this with Javascript:

function popupMessage()
{
alert(“What's up Jimmy!”);
}
What they h#$% is that suppose to mean? I know that for many of you this is already freaking confusing, but hold on, it's well worth it!


The complete version of the article can be found here

[aurellius]

I figure I'll build off of resurepus' start.

Programming languages like Javascript are written so that they can be understood in something other than 1s and 0s. Branching off of that , they were constructed off of what people already knew, written language.
Javascript is a dynamic language, and because it is a client side language, you can do some pretty cool things with it.

Variables:
Variables can hold basically any information you tell them to: objects, integers, arrays, or strings.

var num1 = 1;
var num2 = 2;
var num3 = num1 + num2;
document.print(num3);

Simple math operations like these can make dynamically creating values from user input very easy without needing to refresh the page.

[edit] Didn't see that it was part of a larger article

[sevehn]

Hi!

here is a good website - wherein - Java Script Tutorials are shown pretty much - step by step - and is (i so very much think) --- "beginner friedly" =D

JavaScript Tutorial



=D

[jjyepez]

Well, that's a huge mistake armanjackson , javascript has actually nothing to do with Java except for the name .

Javascript is a totally different language , this is a scripting language actually wich is way different from Java (OOP) .

Figure it out ! The history of javascript is very interesting indeed!
Best regards!
--
jjyepez

[itsme]

Thanks for the tutorial!!

[theli7s]

Here is a nice tutorial about jquery ( javascript library)

jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series | Nettuts+

[MrHUNK]

Very helpful tutorial