JavaScript Tutorial
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JavaScript is the world's most popular programming language.
JavaScript is the programming language of the Web.
JavaScript is easy to learn.
This tutorial will teach you JavaScript from basic to advanced.
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Examples in Each Chapter
With our "Try it Yourself" editor, you can edit the source code and view the
result.
Example
My First JavaScript
Click me to display Date and Time
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Learn by Examples
Examples are better than 1000 words. Examples are often easier to understand
than text explanations.
This tutorial supplements all explanations with clarifying "Try it Yourself"
examples.
If you try all the examples, you will learn a lot about JavaScript, in a very short
time!
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Why Study JavaScript?
JavaScript is one of the 3 languages all web developers must learn:
1. HTML to define the content of web pages
2. CSS to specify the layout of web pages
3. JavaScript to program the behavior of web pages
This tutorial covers every version of JavaScript:
The Original JavaScript ES1 ES2 ES3 (1997-1999)
The First Main Revision ES5 (2009)
The Second Revision ES6 (2015)
The Yearly Additions (2016, 2017, 2018)