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JavaScript for Beginners Course Developer, Tari Akpodiete through Virtual University

Week One: Introduction to JavaScript
• We learned the JavaScript rules.

• We did our first script.

• We did a simple JavaScript program.

• We were asked review questions.

Week Two: Adding Interactivity with JavaScript
• We were asked some review questions.

Week Two: JavaScript Alerts, Prompts and Confirms
• We did alerts, prompts and confirms.

Week Three: Status Bar Messages
• We worked on status bar messages.

Week Four: Opening and Closing Windows
• We opened and closed windows.

Week Four: Lesson A: Drop-down Navigational Menus
• We learned how to do drop-down menus.

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Rules for JavaScript


• JavaScript is case-sensitive.

• Opening symbols require matching closing symbols.

• Use comments to define the script.

• Javascript usually consists of statements.

• Command Blocks (a group of statements) are treated as a single entity.

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Self Review
At times, I will directly quote my instructor, Tari Akpodiete.


• "JavaScript is a compact, object-based scripting language which allows one to make web pages with which a visitor can interact." I understand this to mean a program within HTML that does something to something making web pages more exciting and understandable. At least that's what I intend to use JS for.

• "[JavaScript was] Invented by Netscape as a joint effort with Sun Micro-systems specifically for the purpose of adding functionality to Web sites."

• JS is so different from Java I don't even think this question is even relevent except to avoid confusing the two.

• JS can do a lot of exciting things, at least as a page writer I find them exciting. It can change the cursor. It can change a picture into another when you run your mouse over it. It can bounce animations around your page. It can do so much stuff for a web page I can't even list everything I've seen it do.

• One thing it cannot do is takeover and control someone's computer.

• I guess it is activated by the script tag by your browser if it is able to read JavaScript.

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Review Questions for Week Two
• Objects are things dealt with in a web browser.

• Properties are parts of objects.

• Methods are the way objects do things.

• Dot Syntax is the way JavaScript does it's paths.

• Event Handlers are Javascript commands.

• Value is a piece of information.

• Variables contain values. Variable names cannot be any of JavaScript's reserved words.

• Operators are symbols JavaScript uses to work with variables.

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