JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.
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The Learning Curve 'for the love of it'

Teachers who love teaching and don't have any papers to grade. Students who love coming to class and don't care about accumulating credit. It might sound like any college instructor's daydream, but it ...