Hello World

No programming language should be published without a customary Hello World program—why should this book be any different?

Type (don't copy and paste) the following code in JS Bin:

function sayHello(what) {
  return "Hello " + what;
}
console.log(sayHello("world"));

Your screen should look something as follows:

Hello World

An overview of JavaScript

In a nutshell, JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language with dynamic typing and first-class function support. JavaScript borrows most of its syntax from Java, but is also influenced by Awk, Perl, and Python. JavaScript is case-sensitive and white space-agnostic.

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