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Mrwan Grada
753 PointsWhat is the point of the console on Javascript ?
I just started intro to programing and I couldn't understand why we using the .console from beginning on java script with out explaining the basic of it.
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Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 PointsUsing the console is an easy way to get you into programming if you've never done any before especially JS it allows you to see how JS works and the simple things that you can do i dived straight into programming with a clue and flopped miserably but using a console allows you too see how things works as well as things that you can and can't do when following the programming language
James Barnett
39,199 PointsConsole.log is an easy way to get output from a JavaScript program. If you want to do something simple when you are writing your first program you can do something like console.log("hello world") or console.log(1+2).
Console.log was introduced in the Writing Your Program video of the Introduction to Programming course here on Treehouse.