by Douglas Crockford | Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. | Release Date: September 2009 | ISBN: 9781449379759

Javascript incorporates some of the best and worst ideas in programming languages. In this segment, Doug Crockford introduces the Javascript programming language, covering all of the core language features, including numbers, strings, operators, arrays, objects, and functions, pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly features of the language as he goes. You'll learn about some common Javascript patterns, why lambda is cool, why you should never, ever use eval, and why you should always declare everything.

1. The History of the Language 00:44:08
2. A Survey of the Language: Part One 00:56:22
3. A Survey of the Language: Part Two 00:18:40
4. Pseudoclassical Inheritance 00:15:39
5. Prototypal Inheritance 00:05:43
6. Functional Inheritance 00:16:49
7. ECMAScript: The Fifth Edition 00:20:07
8. Theory of the DOM Part One 00:38:31
9. Theory of the DOM Part Two 00:20:24
10. Ajax Performance 00:22:49
11. Security 00:36:06
12. Style 00:19:28
13. JSLint 00:12:06
14. JSON 00:24:02