From the inventor: Welcome!
About this video
John Resig introduces himself as the creator of the jQuery JavaScript library, which he made in 2005 while in college. He explains that he works at Khan Academy, including on the live coding editor, and welcomes students to the jQuery course.
You'll be able to
- say who created jQuery and when.
- describe what jQuery is: a JavaScript library.
Key words
- jQuery
- A JavaScript library created by John Resig that this course teaches.
- library
- A collection of ready-made code that other programmers can use in their own programs.
- live coding editor
- The Khan Academy tool where you write code and see the result straight away.
Transcript
John Resig: Hi, I'm John Resig. I'm the creator of the jQuery JavaScript library. I work here at Khan Academy. I created jQuery back in 2005 when I was in college. And here at Khan Academy, I work on a number of different things including building the live coding editor that you use here on the website.
I hope you'll really enjoy this course about jQuery. I know I love it, and I hope you do, too.
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