Many web designers are immediately struck by the strange symbols and words used in JavaScript.
More importantly, you’ll learn how to approach a programming task so you’ll know exactly what you want to do before you start adding JavaScript to a web page. Throughout this book, you’ll learn fundamental programming concepts that apply whether you’re writing JavaScript, ActionScript, or even writing a desktop program using C++. Still, JavaScript is more complex than either HTML or CSS, and programming often is a foreign world to web designers so one goal of this book is to help you think more like a programmer. But many programming concepts aren’t difficult to grasp, and as programming languages go, JavaScript is a good first language for someone new to programming. Programming can seem like complex magic that’s well beyond the average mortal. And, honestly, some programming is like that. For a lot of people, the term “computer programming” conjures up visions of super-intelligent nerds hunched over keyboards, typing nearly unintelligible gibberish for hours on end.
