This tutorial from Panayiotis Nicolaou shows you how. Are you ready to start playing around with JavaScript today? Because it’s an interpreted language, you don’t need to download JavaScript.

An advantage of JavaScript is that its syntax is similar to other languages, such as C-based languages or Java. Simpson says this works in two ways: People familiar with other languages can ...

And since JavaScript has a C-like syntax, it feels familiar to people who have worked in other C-like languages. JavaScript remains "timeless" by continually embracing good ideas from other ...

For all JavaScript's prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don't like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce ...

However, JavaScript offers a more transferable syntax, making it easier to pick up other programming languages like Java or C after mastering JavaScript. JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted ...

CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.