In most programming languages, the main medium of communication is text. Javascript is no different. Often, programmers find themselves working with text more than they work with pictures.

Javascript does not like to talk. You need to ask it to talk using "console.log". Whatever it says will be logged in a console (white box).

Task: Make Javascript talk to you using "console.log(statement)". Just press run, and I'll explain the rest on the next page.

console.log("hello world!");
This is the console. Here, you can see whatever output is given to console.log(), provided the program runs correctly.