Chapter 2
Talking to the User
In This Chapter
Building a page with form elements
Using CSS for better forms
Introducing JavaScript
Responding to button clicks
Changing CSS elements
Although HTML and CSS are pretty cool as they are, games are really about interactivity. You can get a small amount of interactivity through hyperlinks, but for the really fun stuff, you need to write computer code.
Most people think that computer programming is a challenging skill, but it’s actually not that hard to learn. You already have everything you need to get started: a text editor and a basic web page.
Modern web browsers all have built-in support for a programming language called JavaScript. JavaScript is a reasonably easy language to learn, and it provides more than enough power for some really fun games. Here are a few key features of JavaScript:
It’s a scripting language. This class of programming ...
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