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DAY - 1(JavaScript)

What is JavaScript ?

  • Java script is a programming language for the web

  • Js can update and change both HTML and CSS

  • Js can manupilate,calculate and validate data

  • JS brings life to web pages by making them interactive.

  • It is use for building interactive web application and supports both client - side and server - side development

  • interpeted language : code is executed line by line.

  • Dynamically typed : Variable types are determined at runtime

  • Single - threaded:Executes one task at a time

Why JavaScript ?

  • JS is one of the world's top five programming language

  • This year roughly 70% of stack overflow users asked jS questions.

  • The Programming world's QA forum

What version ?

  • The Current JS version is ES2025

  • ECMAScript is oficial name of the JS

  • JS was invented by brendan Eich in 1995 And became an ECMA Standard In 1997 .

  • The first ECMAScript versions were abbreviated by numbers. (ES1, ES2, ES3, ES5, ES6).

  • From 2016, versions are named by year (ECMAScript 2016, 2017, 2018, ..., 2025).

Difference between JS and JAVA

JAVA - Java is compiled language ,meaning you write code ,run it through a compiler ,and create bytecode .the bytecode is then run in a JVM.Which is like your computer software

JS - JS is commanly used to create interactive websites.You are reading this right now on a running Java sciript.

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