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Unit 6: Introduction to JavaScript

world! Notes
“Nice day, Mate.”

Smiley face: :&

Explanation

1. The escape sequences will work only if in a <pre> tag or an alert dialog box.
2. The JavaScript program starts here.

3. The write() method sends to the browser a string containing two tabs (\t\t), Hello, a newline
(\n), world!, and another newline (\n).
4. The writeln() method sends to the browser a string containing a double quote (\”), Nice day,
Mate., another double quote (\”), and a newline (\n). Since the writeln() method
automatically creates a newline, the output will display two newlines: the default value
and the \n in the string.
5. This string contains a backslash sequence that will be translated into Unicode. The Unicode
hexidecimal character 233a is preceded by a \u.
The process of joining strings together is called concatenation. The string concatenation operator
is a plus sign (+). Its operands are two strings. If one string is a number and the other is a string,
JavaScript will still concatenate them as strings.

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Caution If both operands are numbers, the + will be the addition operator.
The following examples output “popcorn” and “Route 66”, respectively.
document.write(“pop” + “corn”);
document.write(“Route “ + 66);
The expression 5 + 100 results in 105, whereas “5” + 100 results in “5100”.

Boolean Literals

Boolean literals are logical values that have only one of two values, true or false. You can think
of the values as yes or no, on or off, or 1 or 0. They are used to test whether a condition is true or
false.

Did u know? When using numeric comparison and equality operators, the value true
evaluates to 1 and false evaluates to 0.

answer1 = true;
or
if (answer2 == false) { do something; }

6.6.2 Composite Data Types

We mentioned that there are two types of data: primitive and composite. The primitive types:
numbers, strings, and Booleans—each storing a single value. Composite data types, also called
complex types, consist of more than one component.

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