Coding your first JavaScript application – BMI Calculator.

         We already created a BMI (Body Mass Index) Calculator using Excel VBA last month. How difficult would it be to rewrite that calculator in JavaScript to embed it on any webpage for people to use? Not that difficult , thought I, remembering happy days of browsing the original, NOT corporate owned, HTML Goodies website in search of the coolest JS mouse-over effects, some 15 years ago. You can see the working calculator above of this post, but I would be lying saying that its creation was painless. Surely, “World’s Largest Web Development Site” provides more than enough reference material for all elements required: HTML and JavaScript, as well as optional, but handy styling language – CSS. However, tweaking my code and making it work, was a very time-consuming process. Looking at my final product and comparing it to top 10 Google search results for BMI Calculator makes it all worthwhile…. Not only it incorporates more enjoyable design, it is also equipped with error handling logic.
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