JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language for creating dynamic web pages.
Videos
| Video | Length | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript: Basics | 24 minutes | Slides |
| JS Objects (incl. JSON) | 5.21 minutes | Slides |
| Object Oriented Programming | 9.40 minutes | Slides |
| Asynchronous JavaScript | 12 minutes | Slides |
Some example code can be found in the
code/javascript
folder of the repository.
Readings
Essential
- MDN: Working with JSON
- MDN: Manipulating documents
- MDN: Asynchronous JavaScript
- MDN: Fetching data from the server (skip the section on
XMLHttpRequest)
Further
- MDN: Arrow functions
- MDN: Document Object Model (DOM) (see guides on the left)
- Wat, a famous lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt (2012).
Advanced
The following references go significantly beyond the curriculum.
- MDN: Inheritance and the prototype chain. This is a guide to the protoyping-style object-orientation of JavaScript.
- MDN: The event loop. This explains the concurrency model of JavaScript, as well as the way asynchronous code and promises arehandled.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JS edition (2022). This is a classic programming book that has been recently rewritten in JavaScript.
- Boris Cherny, "Programming TypeScript" (2019). This is a book-length introduction to TypeScript, a typed extension to JavaScript which is also supported by React.