Im brand new to Javascript and Jquery. BRAND new. Ive been through this basic tutorial and downloaded the latest version of Jquery (jquery-1.10.2.js), Im not getting a dialogue window on launch from a basic HTML window. I hope Im pointing correctly to the .js file in my directory.
If you’re new to JavaScript then jQuery isn’t a good starting point as you need a good knowledge of writing vanilla JS before using a library such as jQuery, there are lots of great places to learn JavaScript such as the following.
First off, I agree with what Chris said in post #4.
However, to address your problem here, I would check your path to jQuery, as the code you provided is otherwise fine.
A couple of tips.
If you put your scripts just before the closing body tag, you almost never have to test if the DOM is ready, because it is by definition: