General JavaScript tutorial or video
We’ve come a long way down the JavaScript road. Gone are the days of ‘just hack it’ for the web – architecting even a small project in JavaScript can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are several frameworks to help you; the most popular currently is AngularJS.
JavaScript’s prototypes are a simple and elegant way to represent a very simple form of inheritance in an object-oriented program. This talk introduces examples of semantics from other programming systems, such as mixins, singleton metaclasses, aspect-oriented programming and heterogeneous inheritance.
These days it’s easy to get started building a Single Page Application (SPA). Dozens of frameworks are clamouring to pitch their trivial “hello world” and “todo list” examples. But the moment you step outside the predefined path and begin actually crafting something for a real business, you face an explosion …
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, yet it remains predominantly sequential and web applications until recently have been unable to utilize hardware parallelism. The goal of Parallel JavaScript is to change that.
The goal of this talk is for you to understand scopes, scope chains, and closures. You will also be able to easily and quickly explain them to other developers.
The web is filled with tutorials and information on how to use JavaScript in web development. The diversity of techniques and approaches using JavaScript can be overwhelming. This talk focused on how to become productive quickly using JavaScript on your next project (or maybe improve your use of JavaScript).
