Surf the Internet and you'll most likely run into popups, alert boxes, rollover images, popups, buttons, interactive websites, and some more popups. These 'things' or as they are more formally known, 'Dynamic Objects' use a special computer scripting language to execute. This computer scripting language is called JavaScript.
JavaScript is a scripting language that allows a web designer to add interactivity to web pages.
Most programmers refer to JavaScript as a 'Cross Platform Object based Scripting Language'. This jargon is better understood by analysing each word in the sentence.
Cross Platform
Platform, in computer jargon, refers to the operating system, which a computer runs on. Examples include the ever-popular Windows and Mac operating systems (MacOS). Less popular (but just as, if not better) Operating systems include: Linux, Unix, BeOS, as well as many others. What is meant when referring to JavaScript, as 'Cross Platform' is that it is able to run and produce consistent results on a wide variety of operating systems using the same code.
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