Complete beginner needs help

[Lightnin]

:o Hi. I'm in need of some very basic info.

I've been trawling around trying to find a modern programming language to learn.

Back in the early 90's I trained as a programmer in MSBasic and CoBOL. I hated CoBOL but found I could use basic.

I took a couple of short tutorials on Webmonkey's site and found that I had no problem following the code.

But, and you'll probably find this a bit stupid of me.

Exactly what environment does JScript run in.
I know that it can be used in conjunction with HTML.
Which I can follow, just about.

Is it possible to have standalone output from a JScript.

I've also begun using Flash MX and Jscript seems to fit in nicely with the actionscript used in FMX.

Any tips would be welcomed.:confused:

[poway92064]

Can't help you with JScript Lightnin, but there's a few modern programming languages, XML, PHP, etc. I need to get my butt on the roll, and learn them also.

It would help if i'd stop drinking these Margaritas. :cool:

Steve

[Arc]

JScript runs on the users machine as apposed to the server like PHP/ASP would.

Users can choose to turn JScript off if they want which would make your app not work, but they cant turn off php/asp.


Personally i wouldn;t advise making a full web based app with JScript. I would do it with PHP or ASP and use Jscript where needed for field validation etc..

[pyro]

Also, JScript is not JavaScript. JScript is M$'s version of JavaScript...

Generally speaking, JavaScript is browser dependent. There are JavaScript runtime environments, but I have never used them, and they aren't widely used.