Scripting Languages by tara https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu Features and Uses en-us 2018-04-11 12:40:15 UTC 2023-06-29 10:19:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png Q1. What Are Scripting Languages? tara_deegan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/160609207 2017-03-16 17:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/160609207 Q2. What Types of Scripting Languages are available? tara_deegan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250674937 2018-04-11 12:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250674937 Q3. What are the main features of JavaScript? tara_deegan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250675460 2018-04-11 12:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250675460 Q4. Why is JavaScript useful? Give examples tara_deegan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250675542 2018-04-11 12:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/250675542 Q1, Max & Laura https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252455781 A scripting language is a programming language for for implementing and communicating with other programming languages.

There are many different scripting languages, the more known ones are, JavaScript, VBScript, Python, Perl and Ruby.

The main difference between scripting code and normal code is that normal code is compiled before being run and scripting code is interpreted from source code, one command at a time.

Although scripting languages has been known throughout the programming world it has only just came into the web industry recently.]]> 2018-04-17 08:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252455781 Q.1 Lucas & Josh https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252455915 A scripting language is a programming language that is interpreted by a programs run time rather a computers processor ]]> 2018-04-17 08:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252455915 types of scripting languages https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456159 Perl - a string processing language
Lingo - used for media content
AppleScript - a script for sending commands to mac Operating System
JavaScript - adds functionality to a web page
VBScript - a smaller version of visual basic; it is used to enhance features of web pages in internet explorer.]]> 2018-04-17 08:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456159 Q2 Rajul and Ethan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456363 Perl - small scripts for system administrators and web site maintainers 
Hypertalk - underlying script language of HyperCard 
Lingo - to develop high-performance multimedia content and application
AppleScript - to send command to operating system 
Javascript - allow more functionality to web page
VBScript - used to enhance the feature of web page ]]> 2018-04-17 08:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456363 Q.2: Ben & Arthur https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456401 The types of languages are available are:
- Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language)
this is a string processing language for writing small scripts for system and site administrators.

- Hypertalk is the underlying scripting language for HYperCard

- Lingo is a scripting language of Macromedia Director, which is an authoring system for developing high performance multimedia content for the internet and Disks

- Applescript is a scripting langauge for the Macintosh and allows the user to send commands to the operating system

- Javascript is used to allow more functionality and enhance webpage authoring on HTML.]]> 2018-04-17 08:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456401 Ken and Dylan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456479 Looping statements
Client side
Event handling
Control statements
Object based language
Light weight language]]> 2018-04-17 08:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456479 Q3. Max & Laura https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456538 Main features of JavaScript:
Has browser support
Can change web pages during runtime- client side & server side
Supports objects
Can be used with other programming languages



]]> 2018-04-17 08:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252456538 Amy and Angharad https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457126 A scripting language is a script that is written for a run-time environment to execute tasks. It communicates with other languages.]]> 2018-04-17 08:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457126 Q.3 Lucas & Josh https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457158 - Object based scripting language
- Can detect the user's browser and OS
- Interpreter based scripting language
- Gives the ability to create new functions within scripts]]> 2018-04-17 08:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457158 Ken and Dylan https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457233 A high-level programming language that utilises scripts to do specific commands.
Examples of languages that are script based;
Python, Perl and PowerShell]]> 2018-04-17 08:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457233 https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457397 It's free and widely available
Has good tools e.g. Grunt, mocha, node.js
Nearly as fast as C++

]]> 2018-04-17 08:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457397 Amy and Angharad https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457831 It handles dates and times
Browser support
Object based language]]> 2018-04-17 08:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252457831 https://padlet.com/tara_deegan/itlu4yyr25yu/wish/252458169 - JavaScript is easy to learn  
- It is installed on every modern web browser
- Easy to debug

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