Hands on coding with JavaScript:
For those unfamiliar with Codecademy, Codecademy is an online service that provides tutorials for various scripted, and compiled coding languages. The Codecademy JavaScript tutorial gave hands on instruction, and practice in the basics of the syntax, control flow statements, arrays, loops, and functions, in the JavaScript language. This tutorial was extremely helpful in teaching me the language, giving me a hands on approach, and allowing me to practice concepts I learned, and took notes on, in the w3chools lessons.
Codecademy tutorials run the same way for majority of the code languages listed on their website catalog. Codecademy offers a wide variety of coding languages including Scripting Languages, and Compiled Languages. Scripting Languages are those used in web browsers, such as HTML, and PHP. These are dynamic languages that can change with a websote, and are generally used to display and pull data, much like reading something from a script. Compiled Languages require a compiler program to run the code, and are usually more sophisticated, creating progams one may use on a home computer. Examples of Compiled Lanuages could be C++, Java, and Python.
Above is a screenshot showing my code used in a problem where I was to use the console.log() function, and .substring functions, to manipulate string name lengths. In JavaScript, functions can be written to the log which runs in the background of the webpage, in order to create functions to manipulate data inputted to the script.
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^Certification of my completion of the assigned JavaScript codecademy sections.
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