This document provides an overview of JavaScript including:
- It is a dynamic programming language that is interpreted and has object-oriented capabilities. It was introduced in Netscape 2.0 in 1995.
- It allows for increased interactivity on webpages through features like validating user input without page reloads and creating rich interfaces.
- It has various data types, variables, operators, and control structures like conditionals and loops.
- It uses objects and object-oriented programming. Common built-in objects include numbers, strings, arrays, dates and more.
- Functions are reusable blocks of code that can be defined and called. Events allow JavaScript to interact with HTML. Regular expressions provide pattern matching capabilities.