Friday, January 31, 2014

Getting Started With Programming

Getting Started With Programming

deffinitons and required data

data types
numbers, strings, booleans
numbers
1, 2, 3, etc.
strings
anything in quotes like this
booleans
true or false
comparison operators
>, <, >=, <=, ===, !=, they compare two data types to return a boolean
conditional statements
following code is only executed if true
modulo operator
returns the remainder of a division operation
length
returns the number of characters in a string
substring()
returns part of the preceding string
variables
variables store data and must be preceded by var
var
denotes a variable

other syntax stuff

  • console.log=print or echo
  • comments start with //
  • true and false are lower case