| How JavaScript Works Contributor(s): Crockford, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1949815013 ISBN-13: 9781949815016 Publisher: Virgule-Solidus LLC OUR PRICE: $45.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - Javascript |
| Dewey: 005.276 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 7" W x 10" (1.55 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A light-hearted romp thru the world's most misunderstood programming language. Douglas Crockford starts by looking at the fundamentals: names, numbers, booleans, characters, and bottom values. JavaScript's number type is shown to be faulty and limiting, but then Crockford shows how to repair those problems. He then moves on to data structures and functions, exploring the underlying mechanisms and then uses higher order functions to achieve class-free object oriented programming. The book also looks at eventual programming, testing, and purity, all the while looking at the requirements of The Next Language. Most of our languages are deeply rooted in the paradigm that produced FORTRAN. Crockford attacks those roots, liberating us to consider the next paradigm. He also presents a strawman language and develops a complete transpiler to implement it. The book is deep, dense, full of code, and has moments when it is intentionally funny. |