1. “Hello, World!” Writing Your First Program

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Project: Create a Google Chrome Extension.

Welcome to the world of programming! I believe that the best way to learn how to program is to actually program (but you already know that because you totally didn’t skip the introduction), so we’re going to build a program in this chapter. The program will be the first part of a larger project that we will build throughout this book. Go get in front of your computer if you’re not already there—you have some code to write!

One word of warning before we get started: We are going to cover a few things in this chapter that you won’t immediately understand. Not understanding what you are doing is (for me at least) a big part of programming computers. ...

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