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| The technical name for "moving text" - is an animation technique mixing motion and text. |
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| This is a Web focused programming language that builds interactivity on the Web. It is part of the Trinity of Front End Web Design along with HTML and CSS. (This has nothing to do with Java - a completely different language) |
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| External JavaScript files are linked to HTML through this tag, using the src attribute. |
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| These in programming allow the code to do something based on a condition – if this, do this. (A an example of this is an if statement that tested the counting variable value in our rotating gallery project.) |
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| In programming this is a container of information. |
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| This can be stored in a variable. (ex: 123Abc) |
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| This can be stored in a variable. (ex: 4) |
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| This can be stored in a variable. (ex: 3.14) |
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| This can be stored in a variable. (ex: true or false) |
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| Document Object Model (DOM) |
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| This allows Web Developers to access anything in an HTML document from the JavaScript. |
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| This is a method used to connect JavaScript to an HTML element with a specific Id. Once connected, you can change and adjust the element programmatically (like change the src attribute over time in our gallery). |
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| This in programming is a named section of your code that does something specific. This function is first defined, and then can be called over and over without having to re-write the function which saves programmers time. |
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| This and this (a type of bracket) are frequently used in JavaScript, and they have to be balanced. If your program has 5 of these‘s, it will need 5 of these’s or the code will throw and error and likely not behave as you intend it to. |
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| This will increase a variable by 1 |
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| This will decrease a variable by 1. |
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| window.onload=function(){...} |
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| This is an anonymous function (a function with no name) which will wait until the webpage has loaded before running. Wrapping our JavaScript with this anonymous function is a useful way of delaying the JavaScript from running until the entire page has loaded. |
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| HTML input type of “...” will create a text field to collect user input. |
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| HTML input type of “...” will create a text field to collect user input and be masked with symbols instead of your input. This is very low level security, but effective. |
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| This allows JavaScript to change the location of the browser – you can change what the users sees to anything you wish. |
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| This allows Web Developers to test their code by outputting to the console of the web browser. This will not show up on the screen, and is used for development and testing. (This is similar to “Print String” in Blueprints of Unreal Engine.) |
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| These in JavaScript will let the program listen for an “event”, be it a click, keyboard event, etc. When this event “happens”, it will initiate a function to run. For example we ran our username and password project by clicking a button that was listening for the “click” event. |
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