1. Запомните следующие слова и письменно переведите тексты.

1. active scripting – активное скриптование;

2. application – приложение;

3. binary – бинарный, двоичный;

4. browser – браузер;

5. client scripting – клиентское скриптование;

6. to compile – компилировать;

7. the developer – разработчик;

8. entry points – точки входа;

9. license – лицензия, лицензировать;

10. namespace – именное пространство;

11. newest member – новейший элемент;

12. to provide – обеспечивать;

13. programming languages – языки программирования;

14. run-time – время выполнения (прогона);

15. script – скрипт, код;

16. server scripting – серверное скриптование;

17. support – поддержка;

18. vendors – поставщики;

19. the Visual Basic family – семейство Visual Basic;

20. Web pages – Веб-страницы.

What Is VBScript?

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition, the newest member of the Visual Basic family of

programming languages, brings active scripting to a wide variety of environments, including

Web client scripting in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Web server scripting in Microsoft

Internet Information Server.

Easy to Use and Learn

If you already know Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications, VBScript will be very

familiar. Even if you don't know Visual Basic, once you learn VBScript, you're on your way

to programming with the whole family of Visual Basic languages. Although you can learn

about VBScript in just these few Web pages, they don't teach you how to program. To get

started programming, take a look at Step by Step books available from Microsoft Press.

ActiveX Scripting

VBScript talks to host applications using ActiveX® Scripting. With ActiveX Scripting,

browsers and other host applications don't require special integration code for each scripting

component. ActiveX Scripting enables a host to compile scripts, obtain and call entry

points, and manage the namespace available to the developer. With ActiveX Scripting,

language vendors can create standard language run times for scripting. Microsoft will

provide run-time support for VBScript. Microsoft is working with various Internet groups to

define the ActiveX Scripting standard so that scripting engines can be interchangeable.

ActiveX Scripting is used in Microsoft® Internet Explorer and in Microsoft® Internet

Information Server.

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2. Запомните следующие слова и письменно переведите тексты.

1. Boolean values – логические значения;

2. classifications – классификации;

3. to convert – преобразовывать;

4. conversion functions – конверсионные функции

5. to contain – содержать;

6. data types – типы данных;

7. different kinds of information – различные виды информации;

8. distinctions – различия;

9. to enclose – заключать;

10. to express – выражать;

11. floating–point numbers – числа с плавающей точкой;

12. functions – функции;

13. integer – целое;

14. numeric – числовой;

15. quotation marks – кавычки;

16. to represent – представлять;

17. to return – возвращать;

18. string – строка;

19. subtypes – подтипы;

20. true, false – истина, ложь.

VBScript Data Types

What Are VBScript Data Types?

VBScript has only one data type called a Variant. A Variant is a special kind of data type that

can contain different kinds of information, depending on how it's used. Because Variant is the

only data type in VBScript, it's also the data type returned by all functions in VBScript.

At its simplest, a Variant can contain either numeric or string information. A Variant behaves

as a number when you use it in a numeric context and as a string when you use it in a string

context. That is, if you're working with data that looks like numbers, VBScript assumes that it is

numbers and does the thing that is most appropriate for numbers. Similarly, if you're working

with data that can only be string data, VBScript treats it as string data. Of course, you can always

make numbers behave as strings by enclosing them in quotation marks (" ").