JavaScript, like most other scripting languages, is far easier to learn than a traditional programming language. In fact, if you can code HTML, then you can enhance your pages with JavaScript in no time.

What can you do with JavaScript? Plenty-- like 3-D interactive buttons, alert boxes, clocks, calendars, interactive status bar messages, forms with data-verification, and mouse roll-over effects, just to name a few. Master these simple techniques and you'll be using JavaScript to change a document's appearance on the fly in no time.

So roll up you sleeves, fire up your text editor and get ready to bring your web pages to life.

This tutorial is adapted from Reaz Hogue's upcoming book "JavaScript for Pros" by MIS Press. Hoque is an author, software developer and web designer and is proficient in Pascal, Visual Basic, Assembler, C++ and SQL. For more info about the book, visit http://rhoque.com/book.