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JavaScript Introduction to Programming Basics Writing Your Program

Molly Bar
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Molly Bar
Courses Plus Student 5,925 Points
Posted by Molly Bar
Molly Bar
Courses Plus Student 5,925 Points

This instructor is doing everything in mac and not explaining for the windows users.

I am very disappointed because I didn't understand how he opened chrome and started typing command on windows. He is only showing how to do things on mac not realizing that there are windows users trying to learn as well. I wish Nick Petite taught JAVA because he really broke it down into pieces and left no room for confusion. I opened the dev tool by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+J but there are whole bunch of things in it already, not blank like his screen. Also, I only heard him say Testmate or something for JAVA, What about it? where do I write these programs. I have been using workspace and sublimetext for HTML/CSS. This is gonne be one bumpy ride. So many things are not clear already just to get started. This is upsetting.

3 Answers

Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

Hello, Molly.

You can follow along easily with Sublime Text. The choice of the text editor used to write your code is pretty much irrelevant in this case. As long as it has basic things like line numbering and code coloring, you'll be fine.

Workspaces are great, but for these lessons, it might be better if you work on a local file, one that you can create in Sublime and open in Chrome.

As for the developer tools, you can open them like this:

  • Click the menu icon in Chrome, upper right corner
  • Select Tools
  • Click on JavaScript Console in the dropdown menu

That should get you to the same part of the interface that Jim is using to type in code.

Finally, please note that the language Jim is introducing you to is JavaScript, not Java. While they have similar names (an unfortunate marketing ploy), they are completely different programming languages.

I hope this helps clear things up. If not, feel free to ask more questions.

Matija Komorčec
Matija Komorčec
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Matija Komorčec
Matija Komorčec
13,123 Points

Well, you can open it by clicking F12, and you'll see tabs there, like Elements, Network, Sources and so on. The last tab is Console, just click on it and there you go. Btw, if i remember correctly, when he talks about something OS related, he mentions both for Mac and Windows.

Molly Bar
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Molly Bar
Courses Plus Student 5,925 Points
Molly Bar
Molly Bar
Courses Plus Student 5,925 Points

Thanks to both of you. I had to actually google a bit to catch up with him which i didn't find myself doing for lessons with other instructors but now I am able to follow him. I just hope, I don't have to google anymore, I also think some of the questions/challenges are very vague for me to understand. I just take a guess to answer or enter the code. Sorry, when I meant Java, I mean JavaScript which I think he didn't clarify either. Anyways, I started to enjoy and I hope it gets better.