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4. JavaScript

Philip Mason1 
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Wallingford, UK
 

JavaScript is a language usually used with HTML to add functionality especially involving interactivity. It was invented by Brendan Eich in 1995 and is not the same thing as Java, which was released four years earlier. The official name of the JavaScript language is actually ECMAScript , and it became a standard in 1997. It is now supported by most modern web browsers, and it is a powerful tool that you can use as you build web-based applications.

JavaScript is an easy-to-learn language that lets us do many things that are very useful, including
  • Validate input on the client machine, rather than having to send a ...

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