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Personal Education
09/09/13
This entry holds my thoughts about the beginning of the P2PU Javascript introduction study group.
- It is a guided experience (as advertised), not a group course. Before mine,the last comment left on the Week1 reactions was August 2011, just over 2 years ago as I write these thoughts. I’m wondering if I’ll be following along alone.
- The week 1 assignment is deceptively simple. The actual study material is significant.
- I am very confused by the complicated name, JavaScript, which in code is typically written all lower case “javascript” and, although developed by Netscape and deployed in their browser in 1995, the language name is somehow a trademark of Oracle (because they bought Sun Microsystems? Sun developed Java, to which Javascript is not connected, as far as I know.)[Wikipedia] You might have noticed that I’ve mixed in the three case usages which all seem to be common. Bear with me if I continue to do so.
Adding to my confusion, Microsoft has called their IE version “JScript” and the official international standards body calls the language ECMAScript
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