Beginners, you may gloss over this reply if you like, we'll cover this stuff soon enough.
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Originally posted by Radar
Do you have to declare your variable types such as a string, a whole number etc?
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Not in Javascript... in Javascript, a basic variable can contain a boolean, a character, a number, or a string. In more advanced languages, this distinction is necessary, but not in JS.
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Originally posted by Radar
In the example of madlibs code, what are the commands for input and output of strings such as the "get" command?
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Javascript have a built-in function called prompt() which asks the user for a value, and returns it. That's how we'd retreive the words from the user. We can then print those back out to the browser with a document.write() command.
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Originally posted by Radar
Does a double equal sign == mean not equal to?
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No... a double equal is the test operator...
if (myNumber == 10). A single equal is the assignment operator...
myNumber = 15; If you want to test for Not Equals, you use the != operator.
A post on Javascript operators will be coming up shortly.