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How JavaScript Works - by Douglas Crockford (Paperback)

How JavaScript Works - by  Douglas Crockford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book starts with the fundamentals of JavaScript. It moves on to data structures, functions, higher order functions, and class-free object oriented programming. It looks at eventual programming, testing, and purity.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book is for people who have had some experience with Java­Script, and want to have a better, deeper understanding of how it works and how to use it well. It is also for experienced pro­gram­mers who are looking to understand the workings of another lan­guage.</p><p>This book is not for beginners. I hope to someday write a book for beginners. This is not that book. This is not a light book. If you skim it, you will likely get nothing from of it.</p><p>This book is not about JavaScript engines or virtual machines. It is about the lan­guage itself and the things every pro­gram­mer should know about it. This book is a radical reappraisal of Java­Script, how it works, how it could be made better, and how it can be better used. It is about how to think about Java­Script and how to think <em>in</em> Java­Script. I am going to pretend that the current version of the lan­guage is the only version. I am not going to waste your time by showing how things worked in ES1 or ES3 or ES5. That does not matter. The focus is on how Java­Script works for us now.</p><p>This book is not comprehensive. There are large, complex chunks of the lan­guage that will be dismissed without a word. If I fail to mention your most favorite fea­ture, that is most likely because that fea­ture is crap. I will not be paying much attention to syntax. I am assuming that you already know how to write an if statement.</p>

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