Simon just published the slides from a recent talk he gave – A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript plus his preparatory notes (PDF). Basically a programmers introduction to Javascript and excellent to go with it- closures unmystified.
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Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.
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March 7th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Wow now that is a lecture I would have loved to have been able to attend. Thnks for the links!.
March 7th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Thanks for the post :) I’ve posted better quality slides to Flickr, and I’ve converted the notes to HTML (with fragment links for individual sections).
March 7th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Good point there, sir.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:37 am
A (Re)Introduction to JavaScript
Simon Willison has posted the complete slides (low quality) (higher quality via flickr) to a three hour tutorial he gave at ETech on JavaScript. It looks very thorough with over 100 slides, starting out with the basic syntax and types and working up …
March 9th, 2006 at 1:39 am
Just noticed a minor error on http://simon.incutio.com/slides/2006/etech/javascript/js-tutorial.061.html. This should be:
function avgArray(arr) { var sum = 0; for (var i = 0, j = arr.length; i arr[i]; } return sum / arr.length; }March 18th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Let’s try this again. The “arguments” should have been “arr”, such as:
function avgArray(arr) {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, j = arr.length; i < j; i++) {
sum += arr[i];
}
return sum / arr.length;
}
March 18th, 2006 at 1:50 am