1Running JavaScript

The image shows a room with a computer table, chair, and a laptop on the floor.

What you will learn

Programmers have a set of tools and techniques they use when they create programs. In this chapter, you’re going to discover how JavaScript programs run on a computer. You’ll also have your first of many conversations with the JavaScript command prompt and investigate your first JavaScript program. Finally, you’ll download the Git and Visual Studio Code tools and the example programs for this book and do some simple editing.

What is JavaScript?

Our first brush with JavaScript

A web page with secrets

Tools

Install Git

Install Visual Studio Code

Clone the sample repository

Edit the secret program

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