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Javascript is the coding that runs the small programs such as animation or
databases in your web page. For example, if you have a simple catalog that
you want to put on the web, you would put it in javascript, because it
allows your customers to order certain items from your web page. This is
only a brief description, and not in its entirety.
Robohtml, a web project html writer, gives you the methods to put the
parts together, but you still need to understand what code must be there.
This is true for Front Page as well.(in my opinion!)
I am learning javascript myself. If you want, you can purchase the
complete idiot's guide to Javascript. It tells you how to write code even
if you have no experience in it. It is very easy to learn with this book.
Michele Cottingham
Technical Writer/Graphic Artist
email:cottingh -at- groucho -dot- bsn -dot- usf -dot- edu
url:http://www.bsn.usf.edu/~cottingh
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Elizabeth Kane wrote:
> We have a new engineering dept. head who has said he'd like me to
> learn JavaScript because we're going to be doing some Java-based
> stuff, and a lot of Web/browser-based html stuff in general. I said
> "Sounds great!" but I really know NOTHING about it.
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> Have any of you tech writers learned something about JavaScript? Can
> you tell me what it is, and how it differs from, say, RoboHTML or MS
> FrontPage? Have you taken a class in it? Is it fun to work with? And
> anything else you'd like to throw in.
>
> Thanks,
> Beth Kane
> Lone writer
> bkane -at- artisoft -dot- com, Tucson
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