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JavaScript, originally developed by Netscape as LiveScript, has evolved significantly since its inception in 1995, with a standard established as ECMA-262. It is a dynamically typed language distinct from Java, lacking support for object-oriented development, and is primarily used for client-server interactions on the web. JavaScript enables event-driven computation, allowing user interactions to trigger actions, and includes various features such as primitive types, operators, and built-in objects like Math and String.

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Javascript

JavaScript, originally developed by Netscape as LiveScript, has evolved significantly since its inception in 1995, with a standard established as ECMA-262. It is a dynamically typed language distinct from Java, lacking support for object-oriented development, and is primarily used for client-server interactions on the web. JavaScript enables event-driven computation, allowing user interactions to trigger actions, and includes various features such as primitive types, operators, and built-in objects like Math and String.

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JAVASCRIPT

Origins

⚫ JavaScript was originally named Live script was


developed by Netscape .
⚫ In late 1995 Live script became a joint venture of
Netscape and Sun Microsystems.
⚫ Netscape’s JavaScript has gone through extensive
evolution, primarily by adding many new features.
⚫ A language standard for JavaScript was developed
in the late 1990s by European Computer
Manufacturers Association as ECMA-262.
⚫ Microsoft JavaScript is named as Jscript.
Javascript and Java

⚫ JavaScript and Java are actually very different.

Javascript Java

JavaScript does not support the


Java supports object-oriented
object-oriented software
paradigm.
development paradigm

Dynamically typed language. Java is a strongly typed language.

JavaScript objects are dynamic. Objects in Java are Static.


Uses of JavaScript

⚫ The original goal of JavaScript was to provide


programming capability at both the server and the
client ends of a web connection.
⚫ Interactions with users through form elements such
as buttons and menus can be conveniently described
in JavaScript.
⚫ Events such as button clicks and mouse movements
are easily detected with JavaScript, they can be used
to trigger computations and provide feedback to the
user.
⚫ Capability of JavaScript was made possible by the
development of the Document Object Model, which
allows JavaScript to access and modify the CSS
properties and content of any element of a displayed
HTML document.
Event Driven Computation

⚫ JavaScript are event driven, meaning that the actions


are executed in response to actions of the users of
documents.
⚫ One use of JavaScript is to check the values provided
in forms by users to determine whether the values
are sensible.
Browsers and HTML/JavaScript Documents

⚫ When a JavaScript script is encountered in the


document,the browser uses its JavaScript interpreter
to “execute” the script.
⚫ When the end of the script is reached,the browser
goes back to reading the HTML document and
displaying its content.
⚫ JavaScript scripts can appear in either part of an
document, head or body depending on the purpose
of the script.
⚫ Scripts that produce content only when requested or
that react to user interactions are placed in the head
of the document.
⚫ Scripts that are to be interpreted just once, when the
interpreter finds them, are placed in the document
body.
Object Orientation and JavaScript

⚫ JavaScript Objects
In JavaScript, object are collections of properties.
Each property is either a data property or a function or
method property
Data Properties
.

Primitive values References to other


objects.
General Syntactic Characteristics.

⚫ Scripts can appear directly as the content of a


<script> tag.
⚫ The type attribute must be set to “text/javascript”
⚫ The JavaScript script can be indirectly embedded in
the HTMl document using the src attribute of a
<script>tag,whose value is the name of a file that
contains the script.
⚫ <script type=“text/javascript src=“demo.js”>
</script>
JavaScript Identifiers

⚫ They must begin with aletter,an underscore or a


dollar sign.
⚫ Letters in a variable name in JavaScript are case
sensitive.
JavaScript Comments

⚫ JavaScript has two types of comments


⚫ a)Whenever two adjacent slashes(//) appear on a
line, the rest line is considered a comment.
⚫ Second both single and multiple line comments can
be written using /* to introduce the comment and */
to terminate it.
Primitives,Operations and Expressions
Primitive Types

Primitive Types

Number String Boolean Undefined Null


Numeric and String Literals

⚫ All numeric literals are values of type Number.


⚫ The numeric values of JavaScript are represented
internally in double-precision floating point form.
Declaring Variables

⚫ JavaScript are dynamically typed. This means that a


variable can be used for anything.
⚫ The variable can have the value of a primitive type or
it can be a reference to any object.

⚫ Example var counter=0;


Numeric Operators

JavaScript Operators

Binary Operators Unary Operators


Example:-,+,/,* (--,++)
The Math Object

⚫ The Math object provides a collection of properties


of Number objects and methods that operate on
Number objects.
Methods in Math Object

sin(x) cos(x) floor(x) round(x) max(x) min(x)


The number Object

⚫ The number object includes a collection of useful


properties that have constant values.

Property Meaning
MAX_VALUE Largest representable number
MIN_VALUE Smallest representable number
NaN Not a number
POSITIVE_INFINITY Special value to represent infinity
NEGATIVE_INFINITY Special value to represent
negative infinity
The String Catenation Operator.

⚫ String Catenation is specified with the operator


denoted by a plus sign(+).
Implicit Type Conversion

⚫ The JavaScript interpreter performs several different


implicit type conversions. Such conversions are
called coercions.
⚫ When a value of one type is used in a position that
requires a value of a different type, JavaScript
attempts to convert the value to the type that is
required.
⚫ Example: If either operand of a + operator is a string,
the operator is interpreted as a string catenation
operator.
⚫ Example “August” +1999
⚫ Example 2: 7* “3”
In the above expression the operator is one that is
only used with numbers. This forces numeric context
on the right operand.Therefore,JavaScript attempts
to convert it to a number.The answer is 21.
Explicit Type Conversions

⚫ There are several different ways to force type


conversions, primarily between strings and numbers.
⚫ Strings that contain numbers can be converted to
numbers with the String constructor
var str_value=String(value);
⚫ Conversion can also be done with toString method.
var num=6;
var str_value=num.toString();
var str_value_binary=num.toString(2);

Javascript has two predefined string functions


1)parseInt
2)parseFloat.
⚫ parseInt
The parseInt function searches the string for an
integer literal.If one is found at the beginning of the
string,it is converted to a number and returned.
parseFloat:
It searches for a floating point literal.
String Properties and Methods

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