Summary and Perspectives
Let's see the summarizes what we have covered in this whole course.
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This course covers a lot of ground. Here are some key takeaways:
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JavaScript is a programming language created in 1995 for adding interactivity to web pages. Still the language of the web, it has also pervaded many other environments: servers, mobile devices, connected objects, etc.
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JavaScript has been standardized under the name ECMAScript and is continuously improved. Its latest major version is ES2021.
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JavaScript is dynamically typed: the type of a variable is deduced from the value stored in it.
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JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language: you can write programs using an imperative, object-oriented or functional programming style.
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JavaScript’s object-oriented model is based on prototypes.
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When run into a browser, JavaScript can use the DOM (Document Object Model) to access and update dynamically the structure of a web page.
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JavaScript ...