My background & experience with using JavaScript or other interactive scripting languages and tools is mostly nil at this point in my life. I have some experience with Python (the computer language), but it's been a while. I took a class on introduction to Python I a couple of summers ago. I ended up creating a
hospital filing system. What I noticed that is different from CSS & HTML and basically anything else I have ever done is that the output of my code was given back to me in the same coding language i.e. there was no WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) feature. Additionally, I had to use the Python IDLE, as opposed to just any text editor? Is that a telling feature of Python or is it just that my teacher didn't want us to use any ole text editor? Maybe.
However, I'm more inclined to think that I did need to get the python IDLE because none of the albeit awesome text editors I have used have ever given me back the output of my code without another extension such as a browser.
Update:
Today in my online publishing class, we went over JavaScript. I was ready to learn something new, and I did. But, I did notice that my background with Python helped me understand a few more things about JavaScript than I would ordinarily have at a first introduction.
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