I equate JavaScript with trying to learn a new language: I don’t understand it a lot of the time, but the more I practice the better I’ll get. I seem to be at a place right now, where all the individual pieces sort of make sense, but I can’t quite put them all together in any sort of logical manner. It’s sort of the equivalent of baby talk, hopefully by the end of the semester I’ll be up to speaking in complete sentences.
Contrary to popular misconception, Java and JavaScript are not the same thing. Java is a programming language that creates stand-alone applications, and JavaScript is a scripting language that has to be placed inside an HTML document to work. (Here’s a short article that explains the differences pretty well: http://www.dannyg.com/ref/javavsjavascript.html if you can ignore the comic sans-ish type face in the title.)
What really hurt JavaScript (besides the rather unfortunate name that is always confusing people) is that there were no standards early on. JavaScript would work completely differently in the different browsers. It was a nightmare to try to get your JavaScript to work right for all users. But now that they’ve started standardizing, it has started to become more popular again.
6 comments:
That is an excellent point about the baby talk concept. Im still at jiberish myself and am hoping it will get better. I just hope i dont end up on the Javascript shortbus. From what ive read javascript kind of seams to be a widely hated but widely used scripting language. But it seems to be hanging on for a while longer.
I completely agree with you about how complex this language appears, baby talk or gibberish. There are so many new terms to keep straight and how/where to apply them.
Oh my goodness that comic sans-ish typeface would make Mr. Hunt run in terror! It did catch my attention right away, not in a good way either. The information was informative on the Web page. There was an interesting script about how the Federal government views the first three numbers of your Social Security Number and what state you where born. Got my three numbers correct!
Sounds like JavaScript is making all of us a little crazy. I watched a video that says you can't learn JavaScript out a book and I think I agree with him. I am afraid that the book gives us information and the only way to do it is just keep trying.
I can understand why this language is highly disliked. I know I don't like it. I think I could talk baby talk better than this language.
Well let's keep trying and hopefully it will start to make a little more sense soon.
I have to agree on the 'baby talk' thing. After spending so long trying to make my script work earlier for the assignments, there are a lot of goo-goo gah-gah's and a puddle of drool on my shirt. I wonder if that's the method acting or the brain damage! LOL
Have a great week woman! For now I'm gonna go concatenate a camel case on the beach with an argument and a mai tai!
I was under a serious wrong impression that learning a computer language would be easier than learning to speak another language. I was very wrong. At least you have gotten to the baby-talk stage, I seem to be stuck in the wide-eyed "what is that noise you are making?" stage. I just hope when it starts to make sense, it all starts coming together quickly.
I think we'll have to get to familiarize ourselves with the standards of JavaScript. It's like everything else HTML related; it can work, but it won't be valid!
Instead of "baby talk", it should be "demonic ramblings"!
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