JavaScript and Ajax

What is JavaScript

• Also known as ECMAScript
• Is not related to Java in anyway
• It is not JScript
• Javascript is:
  • scripting language
  • prototype-based object-oriented
  • dynamic
  • weakly typed
  • has first-class functions
  • functional programming language

History

• originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape
• first named Mocha, later renamed to LiveScript
• first shipped with beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995

Exercises

• Got to repository