August 5, 2014
10-11am PST
For many years JavaScript was considered a second-league interpreted language with the main purpose of making web pages a little prettier. In reality, JavaScript became the main programming language for the majority of the UI developed for web applications. You can run JavaScript on the server-side too. JavaScript is a flexible, dynamically typed language that supports both object-oriented and functional programming.
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