JavaScript™ for Programmers: Deitel

4. JavaScript: Introduction to Scripting

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To write simple JavaScript programs.

• To use input and output statements.

• Basic memory concepts.

• To use arithmetic operators.

• The precedence of arithmetic operators.

• To write decision-making statements.

• To use relational and equality operators.

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.—C. P. Scott

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.—James Howell

When faced with a decision, I always ask, “What would be the most fun?”—Peggy Walker

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights.—James Fenimore Cooper

Outline

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Simple Program: Displaying a Line of Text in a Web Page

4.3 Modifying ...