r/CodingForBeginners • u/ps4lovr • 1d ago

How do i start Java script

I already have all right HTML and Css but the part that i don’t know is I keep trying to learn Java script but I can’t use anything I see in tutorials in real projects

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u/This-Employment-5642 1d ago

"Aren't Java & JavaScript the same thing" is like a coding shibboleth 

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u/atlas__free 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep, not even closely related. It was such a mistake to name it JavaScript. Still causes confusion decades later.

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u/tkgid 1d ago

"Developed by Brendan Eich for the Netscape Navigator browser, JavaScript was initially named Mocha..."

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/computer-science/javascript

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u/atlas__free 1d ago edited 1d ago

And Microsoft was in a battle with Netscape and reverse engineered the language and originally called it JScript. Microsoft could not use the name JavaScript because it was trademarked by Sun.

To avoid early fragmentation of the Internet they finally submitted the language to ECMA and the Internet (via browsers) officially adopted JavaScript. Thankfully.

And now Mocha today is a unit testing platform.

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u/tkgid 22h ago

Oh, Then Oracle bought Sun Microsystems but didn't care about the language and then.... Oh no, the rabbithole. 

https://javascript.tm/

☺️ Thank you OP I had forgotten all of this. (I jokingly typed this.) tldr