JavaScript Tutorial 1.3: Introduction to External Input

In this tutorial, we examine one way to receive and play with data given to us from the user rather than data we explicitly include ourselves.

I apologize for the lack of music in this and subsequent tutorials; while Beethoven's almost always a good listen, adding sound to the video was drastically reducing its quality. Hey, if you feel the music helped, why not throw it on while you read?

There are a few grammatical mistakes, as well as my first typing mistake (bummer...), and for these I apologize.

Somewhere in there, you'll notice that JavaScript isn't the greatest handler of multiplication problems, but no worries, I'll explain why this is as well as how to alleviate the problem in a future tutorial.

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Howto & Style

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• JavaScript
• coding
• prompt
• functions
• teach
• tutorial

[JavaScriptTeacher]

You answered your own question, mate; I want to get as much as I can into each tutorial, so I don't pause for too long; there is, of course, a pretty little button for absorbent watchers to do just that...

[LoudSpeakerSayHi]

lol spongebob hahaha thank you these tutorials really helped...

[lag6ones]

200 WPM  2 Errors or so?

[gameking008]

4:28 OMG TYPING ERROR

[MrRocklover2010]

@JavaScriptTeacher what if you want to create a webpage that has sets of radio buttons and text boxes, one for imperial values and one for the metric values what codes will be use for that?

[thesimonmcandrew]

@thesimonmcandrew CODE IS POETRY!

[thesimonmcandrew]

var users_name = prompt ("What is your name?");document.write ("Hello " + users_name + "!")

[TheDarthNefarian]

@JavaScriptTeacher Do you really type that fast?!

[Thevb2101]

@JavaScriptTeacher .. DUDE! I didnt understand a thing when tryin to learn via w3schools , Coz of you i knw JS :D .. Thanks Bro btw how do you type so fast? +_+' .. did you speed up the vid or are you super pro?

[inuasha880]

@larzakajugganot actually you can save it as html or htm according to W3C it is your choice I usually do html but I guess lazy people could use htm

[TheAzOoOz009]

@rawtrancer He speeds the part where he types up.