I think a really good addition to the blog post would be a link to an article/blog post that explains more in-depth the different topics shown. For instance, when you discussed Objects, a link to http://javascriptissexy.com/javascript-objects-in-detail/ would have been very useful. Javascript has a lot of weird edge cases and peculiarities that newcomers should read about.
Other than that, awesome post. I always love just seeing the code vs. reading about it in a book. I find it's easier to learn that way, especially when the language you're coming from has a lot of similarities.
EDIT: To clarify, I have no affiliation with 'JS is Sexy', I just think the lessons/tutorials Richard Bovell writes are awesome!
(Author here) Thanks for the feedback! I originally wrote this in 2007 when I was diving into Javascript to build instacalc.com.
I agree with the examples vs. trying to read in a book. Books often get in their own way, trying to overgeneralize: just show me the code! If I already know how to program, having 5-10 reference examples of every language feature should be enough. You don't need to explain what a conditional is, etc.
Because someone will come along and copy and paste your broken code and put it into something else and now more people have to deal with it. Just take the steps to make it not suck from day 1 :)
The radix is not always 10 by default, it's implementation dependent and sometime it even depends on the number to be parsed. "8" will be parsed in base 10, "08" in base 8. Always specify the radix [1]
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EDIT: To clarify, I have no affiliation with 'JS is Sexy', I just think the lessons/tutorials Richard Bovell writes are awesome!
I agree with the examples vs. trying to read in a book. Books often get in their own way, trying to overgeneralize: just show me the code! If I already know how to program, having 5-10 reference examples of every language feature should be enough. You don't need to explain what a conditional is, etc.
I'll put in a link to that object deep dive :).
Don't pass a string as first argument to setTimeout.
The radix is not always 10 by default, it's implementation dependent and sometime it even depends on the number to be parsed. "8" will be parsed in base 10, "08" in base 8. Always specify the radix [1]
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...