JavaScript: The Good Parts

By Douglas Crockford
JavaScript has bad parts that many times overshadow it’s good parts. Douglas claims JavaScript has, "some of the best parts of any programming language ever created." He explains why in this course, quizzes you on functional programming and covers the monad in the final lecture of the course.
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Feb 19, 2013
Duration
4h 53m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction 2m
Programming Style & Your Brain
The Way We Think 9m The Programming Thought Process 7m JavaScript: Good Parts and Bad Parts 13m Understanding Good Programming Style 11m Avoiding Confusing Code (A) 9m Avoiding Confusing Code (B) 15m Using JSLint 9m
And Then There Was JavaScript
The History of JavaScript 17m JavaScript Fundamentals 9m Numbers 12m Strings and Arrays 14m Objects 7m Common JavaScript Statements 11m
Function the Ultimate
Background on Functions 11m Functions as Subroutines 15m Prototypal Inheritance (A) 6m Prototypal Inheritance (B) 14m
Problems
Problems 1-5 11m Problems 6-9 13m Problems 10-12 5m Problems 13-15 11m
Monads & Gonads
Introduction to Monads 9m The Identity Monad 9m The Ajax Monad 6m The Maybe Monad 7m The Promise Monad (A) 6m The Promise Monad (B) 9m Audience Questions 16m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Feb 19, 2013
Duration
4h 53m
Description

JavaScript has bad parts that many times overshadow it’s good parts. Douglas claims JavaScript has, "some of the best parts of any programming language ever created." He explains why in this course, quizzes you on functional programming and covers the monad in the final lecture of the course.

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Douglas Crockford
About the author

Douglas is the author of Javascript: The Good Parts and Senior Javascript Architect at PayPal.

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