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The JavaScript Renaissance
Part I: The Core Language by Fred Polgardy
What comes to mind when you think of JavaScript? Broken web sites, browser incompatibilities, and brittle spaghetti code? It doesn't have to be this way anymore! In this presentation, we'll be looking at the language itself, paying special attention to its most powerful and under-appreciated features: prototype-based inheritance, closures, and metaprogramming. We'll look briefly at what these features actually mean from a language standpoint, and then spend most of our time rolling up our sleeves and experimenting with code. Come prepared with burning questions!
If you like to play along, I recommend installing Java and Rhino before the meeting. Rhino is Mozilla's implementation of JavaScript in Java, and makes an excellent sandbox to experiment interactively, write scripts, and play around with the excellent JVM integration. I'll be using it in the presentation to run code samples.
When: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 6:00-8:00
Where: Obtiva, 566 W. Adams St., Suite 400, Chicago, IL
Eating: Giordano's Pizza
Previous Events
- November 2008: Introduction to Scala by Dean Wampler
- October 2008: Erlang Functional Programming Workshop by Martin Logan
- September 2008: A Gentle Introduction to Functional Programming by Fred Polgardy
- August 2008: Strangling a Java Webapp with Rails by Tyler Jennings
- June 2008: Jython Reborn by Chris McAvoy
- May 2008: Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming (for the Persnickety) by Dean Wampler