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Now you're going to take your first step into programming by learning three different ways to output messages with JavaScript: a dialog box, writing directly to the console and writing to the current web page.
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A program is a set of instructions
that perform specific tasks
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when executed by the computer.
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In other words,
you're telling the computer what to do.
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To get started and code along with me,
open your workspace and
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preview the index.html file in the browser
by clicking the Preview Workspace icon.
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As you learned earlier, one of the
benefits of programming with JavaScript,
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and what makes JavaScript unique
to other programming languages,
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is that it runs in the browser.
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There's no need to set up any
kind of development environment,
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which means you can start coding
with JavaScript right away.
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As you learned earlier, there's
a development tool built right into
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