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Javascript is the scripting language used by modern web browsers

JavaScript is an weakly typed, interpreted programming language with object-oriented capabilities

OR

Javascript is prototype-based object-oriented scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions.

Simply — Writing instructions for some process that your computer can follow

2 parts to this:

• Constructing your algorithm
• Knowing the syntax of the programming language

• Safari: Great to develop in
• Firefox: Great to develop in
• Chrome: Great to develop in
• Internet Explorer: Step away slowly...

• Notepad: It works!
• SciTe: Works, what we use, free
• Dreamweaver
• Also heavier weight packages like Eclipse or Visual Studio

• TextEdit: Comes standard, it works!
• TextMate: My favorite
• Coda by Panic
• XCode, Eclipse and others

• Make (define) an array, turn that array into a string and write it to the browser
• Make (define) a string, and replace all of the vowels in it with an underscore (_) and write it to the browser
• Collect 5 names using a prompt window and output them to the screen
• Collect an indeterminate amount of names using a prompt window and output them to the screen. Stop accepting names when a user enters "stop"
• Write a function to calculate the fibonacci sequence