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Congratulations—you're now on your way to becoming a bona fide JavaScripter! This chapter has given you all the basic tools you need and has shown you how to get a very basic JavaScript program running. If you followed everything here, you now know:

Some of the great things JavaScript can do
How JavaScript compares to CGI scripting, VBScript, Java, and Flash
JavaScript's main limitations
Where JavaScript goes on the page
How to write JavaScript older browsers won't misunderstand

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