by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 28, 2015 | blog, Featured, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
JavaScript is a bit different from other programming languages. How? In part three of Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers, Elisabeth steps you through what makes JavaScript unique, and why it’s a great first programming language. All you need to get...
by eric | Jun 18, 2015 | blog, Design Patterns, FrontPage, Java, Programming
This article first appeared on the O’Reily Radar to promote the new report titled An Engineering Manager’s Guide to Design Patterns. You can download a free copy of An Engineering Manager’s Guide to Design Patterns directly from O’Reilly. If you haven’t...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 12, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, FrontPage, Programming
JavaScript isn’t the first language to use first class functions, but it’s likely the language that made them popular. Java, Objective C, C#, C++, Python… these are all languages that did not have first class functions until recently. Once JavaScript...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 26, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming
In my previous post, I experimented with the new const keyword which you can use to create constants in JavaScript. Along with var and const, we’ll soon have a third way to declare values in JavaScript: the let keyword. Like var, you’ll use let to create...
by Elisabeth Robson | Feb 18, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming
In programming you can assign values to variables. In some languages, you can also assign values to constants. What’s the difference? The values of variables can vary (which is why they’re called variables), but the values of constants can’t. In...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 23, 2014 | blog, Programming, Reader Question
I got another great question from a Head First JavaScript Programming reader this week. He was working on a big project and had modified our Model-View-Controller code from Chapter 8. Here’s what he wrote: I’m trying to get rid of the last global variable,...
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