As you start writing JavaScript, there are a few tools that are required. Luckily, not much is necessary. In order to get started with JavaScript. Basically, you need two things. You need a text editor, something you can write the JavaScript in. And then you need something to interpret the JavaScript, something that responds to that JavaScript causes it to execute in, as it should execute.
That's generally called the JavaScript engine. Now the JavaScript engine that we will be using throughout this course is found in a browser. There are other places where JavaScript engines are found. For example, earlier in the course, I mentioned that you can write JavaScript on the server side and I specifically mentioned node j. s. Well, node j. s has a JavaScript engine that allows it to interpret JavaScript that is written and to and to respond and to work. According to The code that is written, but we will be using the browser for our JavaScript engine. Specifically, the Chrome browser is the one that I will be using.
Now you may need to obtain a text editor or you may already have one. Now luckily, text editors aren't too difficult to come by either many of them are free. Here are some of my favorite text editors, and ones that I've used in the past. Now for this course, I will be using Sublime Text that's the one that's listed first that's available for both Mac and Windows. However, it is not free. This particular text editor is not free, but I found it is worth the price that I needed to pay for.
It has some nice features that I really like. Another text editor that I really like is brackets. That one's created by Adobe. I've used started using data a bit recently and really enjoyed how some of the features that it has There's some features that sublime has that I still like better. But I have really liked what brackets brings to the table. And that is free.
And that is available for Mac and Windows textmate is a Mac only, and Text Wrangler is Mac only as well, they're both free Notepad. notepad plus plus is Windows only. And it is free. Any one of these texts letters can be used to accomplish what we need to in this course, it really doesn't matter what text editor you choose to use, just keep in mind that I will be using Sublime Text. So if the text editor looks a bit their friend, or I do something with it that is a bit different. Just be aware that it may be some functionality that is in sublime.
Now one more thing I want to mention about the browser. The second of the required tools. Not only is it the JavaScript engine that will interpret the JavaScript and allow us to see if our JavaScript is doing what we want it to do. The browser can also be used As you normally use a browser to go out on the internet and find examples of ways to accomplish things you want to accomplish, there are so many examples out there about JavaScript is is such a popular language that you can find a lot of help on the internet and so you should use it for that reason as well. Those are the tools required. So let's move on to the next section.