February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
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JavaScript Syntax
Once you get the hang of it, JavaScript can be a very easy language to write. In fact, it is very similar to other common web languages, including ActionScript (which is itself an ECMA scripting language and is the underlying language of Flash) and PHP (which is a server-side scripting language). We’ll begin with the basics of syntax.