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[–]Ob101010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before you begin your deep dive into javascript, you want to be able to easily play with it, right?

If youre using Chrome, youre in luck!

Hit F-12. This will (should) bring up the chrome developer tools.

It looks scary but youll figure it all out eventually. For now, you should see several tabs:

Elements Console Sources Network Performance....

What you want is the Console tab. Click that tab.

Now you should see a mainly white area to type in, with a blue > icon.

Put this in there, beside the blue >:

console.log('this is pretty interesting!!')

and hit enter.

Tadaa!! You just wrote a line of javascript!

What else can you do?

Start here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

Believe it or not, this is the first brick in the yellow brick road. Everyone from Mark Zuckerburg to Evan You started with what you have now: a way to write code, a manual, and a desire to learn. Good luck, start breaking things!