What is the main advantage of JavaScript?

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What is the JavaScript term for the parts of an object's state, and what is the term for a function that is a part of an object?

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Write down in your own words what happens when an interactive HTML/JavaScript document is loaded by a browser from a Web server.

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What object does the method alert belong to? What does the method do in that object?

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Explain what an argument is and give an example of one.

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Write a statement in JavaScript that displays a dialogue box with the greeting 'Form ready for your application. Please proceed.'

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What is the purpose of a variable? How do you declare a variable in one script in a document for it to be used by another?

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Write the JavaScript code that will produce the following prompt:

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The date Fri Jan 4 11:38:00 UTC 1991 is 662989080980 milliseconds after midnight, 1 January 1970. How would you create a Date object referred to by variable theDate, which represented the date Fri Jan 4 11:38:00 1991 in universal time.

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To which object does the method close() belong in the following line of JavaScript?

close()

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The window object includes a method resize that takes two arguments which specify the width and height of the window in pixels. Read the following script and write down what it does. (Do not try to work out what happens in 'odd' situations, like when a negative number is given.)

    var squareSize
    = window.prompt("In what size square would you like this?", "300")
    window.resizeTo(squareSize,squareSize)

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