Javascript $ reference error
<p>I am new to Javascript and jQuery and I am the code below is from Jquery and Javascript. My problem is that when I run this code, I am getting an error in my error console which says : </p>

<pre><code>ReferenceError: $ is not defined.
</code></pre>

<p>I have no idea why it is not recognizing the $ sign. </p>

<pre><code> &lt;link href="../_css/site.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  &lt;script src="../_js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;script&gt;
  $(document).ready(function() {
  $('body').hide().fadeIn(3000);
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
</code></pre>
