Do Stuff with the DOM

For beginners learning JavaScript, I want to explain the HTML DOM. Coding can be thought of as just ‘stuff’ doing ‘stuff’ to other ‘stuff’. Of course, what that ‘stuff’ is is the fun part. When developing something, we must interface with something. My first development project was interfacing not with the DOM but with a web page that configures a series of choices that eventually outputs a string. This string would drive a Bill of Materials for the production floor to create or service product. On the other hand, a developer who programs in the C language may be interfacing with firmware in which the code receives sensor inputs, does stuff with it, and then outputs it to a display. For web developers, the input can be thought of as the elements within the DOM along with the user’s actions, while the output is the rendered web page. We will have to learn how to be comfortable with manipulating the DOM because that is what JavaScript often does. <a href="https://medium.com/@jon.cavalcant/do-stuff-with-the-dom-8d0406235866">Read More</a>