New to JavaScript programming?
Think you know what JavaScript is… but haven’t really used it for many years?
Considering building Metro apps for Windows 8 using JavaScript?
Then … you could do worse than setting aside a few hours to watch, well, pretty much anything by Douglas Crockford.
I’ve started with the following from 2007 but there are plenty more to go with:
History and introduction
The Good Parts
Douglas and his relationship with JavaScript is nicely summed up as
“a journey from deep scepticism about a flawed, half-baked scripting language in the earliest days to a growing affection for what is now a still-flawed but surprisingly beautiful and powerful language that has ‘radically changed my way of thinking about programming languages.’”