An Introductory Course in Computer Programming

Using JavaScript
by

Brian Mulligan I.T., Sligo

Table of Contents

• Pre-requisite Skills
• Lesson 1: An Instruction
• Lesson 2: A Program
• Lesson 3: Variables
• Lesson 4: Changing the Contents of Variables
• Lesson 5: Better looking output
• Lesson 6: Stopping a Program to get data
• Lesson 7: Doing Calculations
• Lesson 8: Parentheses
• Lesson 9: Practice at calculations
• Lesson 10: Changing the contents of a variable relative to its current value.
• Lesson 11: Doing more than one calculation in a program.
• Lesson 12: Doing more complicated calculations
• Lesson 13: Choosing between 2 separate options (if instruction)
• Lesson 14: Calculations that cannot be done
• Lesson 15: Avoiding square roots of negative numbers.
• Lesson 16: Checking several conditions at one time.
• Lesson 17: Repeating a set of instructions many times.
• Lesson 18: Doing the same calculation many times.
• Lesson 19: Reading in data many times