Very new to coding, what does the console.log do?

[rednal]

Hi, I've started learning to code on codecademy and was having trouble understanding what the command console.log did. Please explain in very simple terms what it does and its importance.
Thanks a ton,
Rednal

 

[EvilManagedCare]

When you executed a line of code with that in it, what happened?

 

[nickbits]

It prints to the browser console. There is a command in each browser to open it. It is used to debugging and development.

 

[Leros]

This is the first result for a Google search of "console.log javascript".

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4743730/what-is-console-log-and-how-do-i-use-it