Today’s goal:

• Begin learning JavaScript (JS)!
  • What is it and why would you use it?
  • What are some examples of JavaScript?
  • Using variables and functions
  • Using the web console in Firefox to practice JS code

 Today’s featured website:

• http://balldroppings.com/js/– Make sure you view the code.

 What is JavaScript?

• What is JavaScript? Why would you want to learn how to use it?
• Let’s watch this brief video about JavaScript.
• We recently used JavaScript by learning some of Bootstrap’s features such as the photo carousel and pop-up windows (modals)

 JavaScript practice

• Let’s get in some basic practice with this fun tutorial
• Now, let’s try come of the coding from the tutorial directly in our browser. Open up Firefox, and then hit Ctrl-shift-K at the same time to bring up the web console. We’re now going to practice the basics we just learned in here.
• Ok, now we’re ready to open Notepad++ and start a new page. We’re going to use this tutorial as a guide.
• Finally, we’re going to learn how make our webpage fart