For many years, JavaScript has been used only as a tool to add simple interactivity to web pages.
The project arrives just as all kinds of amateurs are getting excited about coding, thanks to Code Academy, a free online course in programming that looks like Foursquare-meets-Math Blaster (the new Code Year course asks that each student spend about an hour a day for a year learning JavaScript, which may be a small price to pay for the great sums that will come to you as a master hacker).
With a visual programming language, a beginner doesn't get tripped up syntax or typos the way they typically might with a typed programming language (like Ruby or Javascript)." After a year on the app store, Hopscotch said its app has been used to create more than 1.5 million projects, compiling more than 57 million blocks of code.
That was years ago, now JavaScript developers, like Eich, Nolen and Ashkenas speak of "JS.next," a JavaScript made of just good parts.
WebGL and other technologies changed that a bit in recent years, but because JavaScript isn't exactly a speed freak, plugin-free gaming never quite took off.
The company wants a web UI engineer with "2+ years hacking in Javascript" indicating that's what the video streaming interface could run on.
JavaScript's origins go back 20-plus years, rushed into production on early Netscape Navigator web browsers by the language's inventor, Brendan Eich (@BrendanEich).
Consequently, over the last couple of years, a small number of JavaScript-based sequence and alignment viewers have started to be developed.
It was a time when sites rarely had any JavaScript and DHTML was the buzzword of the year.
This JavaScript teaching platform targets the six- to 13-year-old age-range.
"Even the worst BlackBerry from years ago can display HTML, CSS, and run JavaScript.
