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Look at JavaScript’s language features

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Look at JavaScript’s language features

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- So, now that we have a better idea of what exactly can be done with JavaScript, let's take a closer look at the language itself and some of the characteristics that make it a little bit different from some of the other programming languages out there, right? Especially the ones that you might be used to using. Now, the first thing to know about JavaScript is that it's not Java. And while JavaScript has definitely borrowed some of its basic syntax decisions from Java, as you'll see a little bit later on, you know, it makes pretty heavy use of things like curly braces. That's really about as far as the similarities go. So the next thing to know about JavaScript is that it's what's known as an interpreted language. And what this means is that unlike compiled languages such as C++ or Java, which you may have worked with before, C++ and Java have to be compiled before their run. JavaScript code is actually executed without the extra compilation steps. So in other words, when we run a…

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