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How To Write Your First JavaScript Program

Updated on August 24, 2021
👁 How To Write Your First JavaScript Program

Introduction

The “Hello, World!” program is a classic and time-honored tradition in computer programming. It’s a short and complete first program for beginners, and it’s a good way to make sure your environment is properly configured.

This tutorial will walk you through creating this program in JavaScript. However, to make the program more interesting, we’ll modify the traditional “Hello, World!” program so that it asks the user for their name. We’ll then use the name in a greeting. When you’re done with this tutorial, you’ll have an interactive “Hello, World!” program.

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JavaScript is a high-level, object-based, dynamic scripting language popular as a tool for making webpages interactive.

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