Java which runs in an interpretive environment known as a Virtual Machine. This capability gives Java it s cross-platform capabilities. JavaScript has cross-platform capabilities because the support of it s operations is provided by the implementation of the browser. The concepts here are important to any course in computer science. Every language, whether computer or human oriented, has a syntax.
Syntax is the set of rules that define how a phrase is structured.
English has a syntax that describes how sentences can be structured. Use examples to illustrate how syntax differs from semantics, which is not the structural correctness of the sentence, but the meaning that the phrase conveys. Ate John an apple. Syntax conveys the structure, semantics conveys the meaning. When debugging a program, it is important to understand that problems may occur because of syntactical errors or semantic errors.