Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fourth Edition

Chapter 6. JavaScript: Introduction to Scripting

	Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
	--C. P. Scott

	The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
	--James Howell

	When faced with a decision, I always ask, “What would be the most fun?”
	--Peggy Walker

	Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights.
	--James Fenimore Cooper

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

• To write simple JavaScript programs.

• To use input and output statements.

• Basic memory concepts.

• To use arithmetic operators.

• The precedence of arithmetic operators.

• To write decision-making statements.

• To use relational and equality operators.

Outline
6.1	Introduction
6.2	Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text in a Web Page
6.3	Modifying Our First Program ...