JavaScript tutorial

History

• Created in 1995 by Brendan Eich, a Netscape engineer
• First released with Netscape 2 early in 1996
• Named as JavaScript instead of LiveScript for marketing reason, although it has very little in common with the popular Sun Microsystem's Java language
• Later, Netscape submitted JavaScript to Ecma International and became the first edition of ECMAScript standard of that year
• Significant update in 1999, resulted in ECMAscript edition 3
• JavaScript major updates: edition 5(2009), edition 6(2015)

Overview

• Syntax based on Java and C languages
• Supports object-oriented programming with object prototype, instead of classes
• Supports functional programming (functions are also objects and can be passed around like any other object)

Types

• Number
• String
• Boolean
• Function
• Object
• Symbol (new in ES2015)
• undefined
• null

To be continued...