As with the HTML Beginner Tutorial and CSS Beginner Tutorial, the JavaScript Beginner Tutorial assumes that you know zip all about JavaScript. The purpose of this guide is to teach the bare essentials — just enough to get started. The JavaScript Intermediate Tutorial and JavaScript Advanced Tutorial go into more depth.
This tutorial is an introduction to programming in general, through the medium of JavaScript. We’ll get into interacting with web pages in the Intermediate section.
As thrilling as it is to jump in at the deep end, these waters contain rabid sharks AND angry piranhas. That’s right; salt water fish AND fresh water fish all in one swimming pool.
For your safety, you should be as comfortable as a cushion with HTML and CSS before proceeding.
New Examples Section!See all of this code stuff in action, and play around with it.