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Crockford on JavaScript – Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain
In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford drops some science to explain why code style is important in programming — particularly in JavaScript — and how tools like JSLint can help. Original source
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Douglas Crockford: Advanced JavaScript
In this presentation (the third of a three-part series) Douglas Crockford looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Pattern that (he argues) run more “with the grain” of JavaScript. Original source
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
Google Tech Talks Web Exponents presented by Doug Crockford February 27, 2009 blog post: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/03/doug-crockford-javascript-good-parts.html JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out…
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Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language
In this 2007 presentation at Yahoo!, which is meant to be the beginning of a three-course sequence (followed by “Theory of the DOM” and then “Advanced JavaScript”), Douglas Crockford explores not only the language as it is today but also how the language came to be the way it is. Note: there’s a title at…