What's the difference between JavaScript and ActionScript?

Question

I know that both ActionScript and JavaScript can create animations but what else can ActionScript due besides that? (Taking a major on multimedia in college for web design)

Answer 1

ActionScript:
ActionScript started as a scripting language for Macromedia’s Flash authoring tool, now developed by Adobe Systems as Adobe Flash. It is a dialect of ECMAScript, and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of embedded SWF files. It is open-source.

JavaScript:
JavaScript is also an implementation of the ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. It is laso used to make web pages interactive. It runs on visitor's computer and so does not require constant downloads from the web site.

ActionScript is similar to the core JavaScript programming language. You don't need to know JavaScript to use and learn ActionScript; however, if you know JavaScript, ActionScript will appear familiar to you.