Hour 6. Scripts That Do More
What You’ll Learn in This Hour
• Using conditional statements
• Comparing values with comparison operators
• Applying logical operators
• Writing loops and control structures
• Debugging your scripts
In the last hour of Part I you took a quick trip through the data types that JavaScript variables can contain. To create anything but the simplest scripts, though, you’re going to need your code to make decisions based on those values. In this hour we examine ways to recognize particular conditions and have our program act in a prescribed way as a result.
You also learn how to use browser-based tools to help debug these more complex JavaScript programs.
Conditional Statements
Conditional statements, as the name implies, ...
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