Although I do not like “what I read on the web” posts, I really had to do this one for purposes of personal reference. As I dwell into the subject more, I aim update it. Aim of this post was to guide someone who already has an understanding of Javascript (me), to get deeper into the subject and understand the underlying mechanics.
Before getting to the keyboard
Firstly started with some videos:
- “JavaScript - The good parts”, a classic:
- Paul Irish: “10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source” from yayQuery on Vimeo.
hint: a good thing with blogging: I just found out that there is a follow-up: 11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source.
With the keyboard
Knowing that there are some Koans available, went straight to download from github: JavaScript Koans. After working with them I learned/discovered/remembered the following:
- Mozilla Developer Network is a great resource
- About equality and numbers, NaN not equal to NaN and mapbender.org,
- Array method Splice,
- Was windblown by the workings of eval.
At the end of the journey the familiar “victory” message:
CoffeeScript
For many people a language that compiles to javascript is they way to go. Decided to try out coffescript to see by myself. Got converted. Result of this was the publication of CoffeScript cheat sheet at cheatography, which I maintain as I learn more.
ToDos
This is the work done up to this update, this post at some poing will be enriched with investigation into unit testing frameworks, experiments and more exercises if good ones will be found. Also from top of my head interested to investigate: minification utilities, packaging.
References
Mozilla.org:
