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Code and the cloud

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What you will learn

In this chapter, we will investigate the fundamentals of cloud computing and discover what makes an application “cloud-based.” We will also start our journey with the JavaScript language by exploring how JavaScript functions allow code running in the browser to interact with the JavaScript environment. We’ll see how programs run inside a web browser and how we can interact directly with code running in the browser via the Developer Tools, allowing us to view inside our programs as they run.

I’m assuming you are familiar with programming, but just in case there are things that you don’t know (or I have ...

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