for the New Programmer</h1></a>
<p>Congratulations choosing TypeScript as one of your first languages - you're already making good decisions.</p>
<p>You've probably already heard that TypeScript is a "flavor" or "variant" of JavaScript.
The relationship between TypeScript and JavaScript is rather unique among modern programming languages, so learning more about this relationship will help you understand how TypeScript adds to JavaScript.</p>
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