Summary and Perspectives
Explore a comprehensive recap of JavaScript's origins, its dynamic nature, and the ecosystems it influences. Learn practical tips to continue your learning path, including practicing coding, utilizing key resources, and joining developer communities to enhance your skills and confidence.
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This course covers a lot of ground. Here are some key takeaways:
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JavaScript is a programming language created in 1995 for adding interactivity to web pages. Still the language of the web, it has also pervaded many other environments: servers, mobile devices, connected objects, etc.
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JavaScript has been standardized under the name ECMAScript and is continuously improved. Its latest major version is ES2021.
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JavaScript is dynamically typed: the type of a variable is deduced from the value stored in it.
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JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language: you can write programs using an imperative, object-oriented or functional programming style.
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JavaScript’s object-oriented model is based on prototypes.
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When run into a browser, JavaScript can use the DOM (Document Object Model) to access and update dynamically the structure of a web page.
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JavaScript ...