Microsoft's tutorials also assist participants setting up a development environment with Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code editor, as well as installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime.

Microsoft's JavaScript and Node.js series builds on the free beginner Python classes it released last year and followed up with more tutorials this May.

JavaScript is also a far better choice than VBA to allow developers to access Web services exposed by Office 365 for use in their documents. JavaScript runs on mobile devices.

[Click on image for larger view.] Step 4 of the Tutorial: Try the Counter (source: Microsoft). So clicking on a tutorial link in the new pane -- to the program.cs file that resides in the Solution ...

Microsoft does JavaScript one better with a new programming language, TypeScript, that enables JavaScript developers to build application-scale apps. The TypeScript project was led by Anders ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...