WEEK 9

Question 1

___ is a light-weight object-oriented programming language which is used by several websites for scripting the webpages.

Answer 1

JavaScript (js)

Question 2

It is an interpreted, full-fledged programming language that enables dynamic interactivity on websites when applied to
an HTML document.

Answer 2

JavaScript (js)

Question 3

JavaScript (js) was introduced in the year ___ for adding programs to the webpages in the ___.

Answer 3

1995, Netscape Navigator browser

Question 4

JavaScript has no connectivity with Java programming language. TRUE OR FALSE?

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

In addition to web browsers, databases such as ___ and ___ uses
JavaScript as their scripting and query language.

Answer 5

CouchDB, MongoDB

Question 6

JavaScript is a ___ language, where certain types are implicitly cast
(depending on the operation).

Answer 6

weakly typed

Question 6

JavaScript follows the syntax and structure of the ___ programming language. Thus, it is a ___ programming language.

Answer 6

C, structured

Question 7

JavaScript is an ___ programming language that uses prototypes
rather than using classes for inheritance.

Answer 7

object-oriented

Question 8

In ___, ___, the first popular web browser, came into existence.

Answer 8

1993, Mosaic

Question 9

In the year ___, ___ was founded by Marc Andreessen. He realized that the web needed to become more dynamic. Thus, a ‘glue language’ was believed to be provided to HTML to
make web designing easy for designers and part-time programmers.

Answer 9

1994. Netscape

Question 10

Consequently, in ___, the company recruited ___ intending to implement and embed Scheme
programming language to the browser.

Answer 10

1995, Brendan Eich

Question 11

But, before Brendan could start, the company
merged with ___ for adding Java into its Navigator so that it could
compete with Microsoft over the web technologies and platforms.

Now, two languages
were there: Java and the scripting language.

Answer 11

Sun Microsystems

Question 12

Further, Netscape decided to give a similar
name to the scripting language as Java’s. It led to ‘___’.

Answer 12

Javascript

Question 13

Finally, in ___, Marc Andreessen coined the first code of Javascript named ‘___’. Later, the marketing team replaced the name with ‘__.’

Answer 13

May 1995, Mocha, LiveScript

Question 14

But, due to trademark reasons and certain other reasons, in ___, the language was finally renamed to ‘___’. From then, it came into existence.

Answer 14

December 1995, avaScript

Question 15

JavaScript is used to create interactive websites. It is mainly used for:

Answer 15

1. Client-side validation,
2. Dynamic drop-down menus,
3. Displaying date and time,
4. Displaying pop-up windows and dialog boxes
5. Displaying clocks etc.

Question 16

3 Places to put JavaScript code

Answer 16

• Between the body tag of html
• Between the head tag of html
• In .js file (external javaScript)