Chapter 1. Jump-Starting JavaScript

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Getting Started With JavaScript is like beginning any other scripting, or programming, language. To learn it, you have to use it. JavaScript is the “engine” that makes things move on a page; by working with dynamic design elements, the more you see what can be done with JavaScript and the more incentive there is to learn to use it. JavaScript allows designers to release those aspects of design creativity that cannot be expressed in static HTML.

You need not look very far to find a use for JavaScript, ...

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