1 / 8

JavaScript Boot Camp

JavaScript Boot Camp. Because we could all suck less at JavaScript. Jason Offutt Software Engineer Central Christian Church Email: jason.offutt@centralaz.com Twitter: @ jasonoffutt. A brief history. Created in 1995 at Netscape

coye
Download Presentation

JavaScript Boot Camp

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. JavaScript Boot Camp Because we could all suck less at JavaScript Jason Offutt Software Engineer Central Christian Church Email: jason.offutt@centralaz.com Twitter: @jasonoffutt

  2. A brief history • Created in 1995 at Netscape • Originally called Mocha, then LiveScript, finally named JavaScript when Sun became involved • To provide browser hooks for Java Applets • Created by Brendan Eich • He was given 10 days to design and implement the language • Currently working as CTO of Mozilla

  3. Some basic facts • JavaScript IS an object oriented language • Very compact language • Elegantly designed object model • Though not without some ugly bits • Standardized in the form of ECMAScript in 1997 • JS is one dialect of ECMAScript along with ActionScript, etc • Lead by Eich. MS, Apple, and Google represented on the board

  4. Why JavaScript? • Interpreted • Dynamically typed • Highly extensible • REALLY fast • Cross-platform • The single most important language in technology • Future-proof

  5. WTF.js • == vs === • null/undefined/NaN • Syntax oddities • eval, with, etc • Global scope

  6. There’s good parts too • First class functions • Closures • Prototypes • Event Loop • JSON

  7. Examples… • Time to write some code

  8. Questions?

More Related