Intro to Javascript

So far we have have introduced HTML and CSS. With just these two tools it is possible to make websites that look great and display a lot of great information. However, what your website will be missing is interactivity. If HTML is the bones and structure of our website, and CSS is the skin and aesthetics, then Javascript is the muscle that gives our website life.

Javascript is different than CSS and HTML because it is a more traditional programming language like Python. We will be using the same constructs like loops and conditionals as we would use while Python programming. The key difference is that Javascript runs inside of our browser and allows us to programmatically interact with the HTML elements on the page.

For many of you Python is your first and only programming language. The beauty of it though is that you are going to soon realize that you are well equipped to learn new programming languages very easily just based on what you already know!