JavaScript: the Good Parts The Good Parts

Name: JavaScript: the Good Parts The Good Parts
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ISBN: 9780596517748

ISBN-10: 0596517742

ISBN-13: 9780596517748

Edition: 2008

Authors: Douglas Crockford

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Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book offers a detailed explanation of the features that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language, and warns you about the bad parts.In the process, JavaScript: The Good Parts defines a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole. Author Douglas Crockford, a member of JavaScript 2.0 committee at ECMA, is considered by many people in the development community to be the JavaScript expert.A beautiful, elegant,…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638



Preface



Good Parts


Why JavaScript?


Analyzing JavaScript


A Simple Testing Ground



Grammar


Whitespace


Names


Numbers


Strings


Statements


Expressions


Literals


Functions



Objects


Object Literals


Retrieval


Update


Reference


Prototype


Reflection


Enumeration


Delete


Global Abatement



Functions


Function Objects


Function Literal


Invocation


Arguments


Return


Exceptions


Augmenting Types


Recursion


Scope


Closure


Callbacks


Module


Cascade


Curry


Memoization



Inheritance


Pseudoclassical


Object Specifiers


Prototypal


Functional


Parts



Arrays


Array Literals


Length


Delete


Enumeration


Confusion


Methods


Dimensions



Regular Expressions


An Example


Construction


Elements



Methods



Style



Beautiful Features



Awful Parts



Bad Parts



JSLint



Syntax Diagrams



JSON


Index