How JavaScript Works

by Douglas Crockford

Overview

This is a radical reappraisal of JavaScript, the world's most important programming language. It looks at many important aspects of programming while considering the requirements of the next language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949815016
Publisher:	Virgule-Solidus LLC
Publication date:	10/18/2018
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Douglas Crockford has been called a JavaScript Guru, but he is more of a Mahatma. He was born in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He has worked in learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. That was the first important discovery of the Twenty First Century. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world's most loved data format.

Table of Contents

0: Read Me First!
1: How Names Work
2: How Numbers Work
3: How Big Integers Work
4: How Big Floating Point Works
5: How Big Big Rationals Work
6: How Booleans Work
7: How Arrays Work
8: How Objects Work
9: How Strings Work
10: How The Bottom Values Work
11: How Statements Work
12: How Functions Work
13: How Generators Work
14: How Exceptions Work
15: How Programs Work
16: How this Works
17: How Classfree Works
18: How Tail Calls Work
19: How Purity Works
20: How Eventual Programming Works
21: How Date Works
22: How JSON Works
23: How Testing Works
24: How Optimization Works
25: How Transpiling Works
26: How Tokenizing Works
27: How Parsing Works
28: How Code Generation Works
29: How Runtimes Work
30: How Wat! Works
31: How This Book Works