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Advanced Introduction to JavaScript

HTML5 becomes a new buzzword, but 80% of development time on many projects is spent writing JavaScript code
By Yakov Fain
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August 13, 2012 06:00 AM EDT
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Some software developers have an impression that JavaScript is a second-league interpreted language with the main purpose of making Web pages a little prettier. The reality is different though. JavaScript is a powerful, flexible, dynamically typed language that supports object-oriented programming.

JavaScript functions are the first class citizen that can live their own lives as opposed to Java’s methods.



HTML5 has become the new buzzword, but 80% of development time on such projects is spent writing JavaScript code. This presentation is a super-intensive overview of the modern JavaScript programming language.



I’ve recorded this screencast for the Fifth Annual Farata Symposium on Software Development.

Readers of my blog who want to enroll into my 6-session hands-on online course on JavaScript should use the promotional code yakov.js to get 30% off the tuition. 

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Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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