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oweiler
If find it funny when a tutorial is targeted at experienced developers but then on slide 6 it defines the term 'variable'.
pskittle
it says for beginners in the title.
selter01
"for those who come into the JavaScript world for the first time but already have some experiences in another languages"
pskittle
Well it says,"Show HN: A concise Javascript tutorial for beginners"
aguywithamum
Wow, I've never used slides.com. It looks really nice.
concise
The reason behind these slides: At our college, we planned in an embedded system course that our students can use the Tessel platform[1] to do quick prototyping on various project ideas, but most of them only took a lecture on OOP in C++ and had no experience on other programming languages. To help them get ready on hacking on these boards and modules with JavaScript in the first few weeks, I decided I should make a notes on some "special features" in JS in contrast to languages like C++/Java, e.g., first-class anonymous functions, closures, class-free OOP, ... And here is the result.

[1]: https://tessel.io/

Mithaldu
Is this thing supposed to ignore my mouse wheel?
tam000
Its amazing. Very user friendly. Well done
SimeVidas
I wonder how well Crockford’s JavaScript lectures from 2006-ish are holding up. At the time, it was arguably the best introduction to the language.
mitchi
Amazing slides. Great work. The quizz at the end is pretty hard too. Is anyone here confident about the answers?

https://gist.github.com/concise/a20b3e5d7e9c61dfbcc5

itsbits
1) Binary Floating Point Standard 2) Pass by Value and Pass by Reference 3) More than 1 argument problem 4) Closure

Not that hard..didn't go thgh the bigger ones BTW...

mitchi
7 is with the instanceof pattern. You add an if statement at the beginning of the function. If "this" is global you return a new object.
cmrosenberg
Bravo! Great slides! I wish I had these when I started out with JS in 2012.
praveer13
What resource would you suggest to a person new to programming?

Sorry if this place is inappropirate