This document provides a summary of modern JavaScript. It includes links to resources about JavaScript and the author. It briefly discusses the history of JavaScript and how it was originally called LiveScript. It provides code examples of selecting elements, finding child elements, and working with classes in modern JavaScript, jQuery, and older JavaScript. It also mentions HTML5 and Node.js.
6. "JS had to 'look like Java' only less so, be
Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage
sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten
days or something worse than JS would
have happened". Brendan Eich