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About Me
- Name: Nigel Fernandes
- Location: Panjim, Goa, India
Crazy, dancing, programming, Goan.. I'm a computer geek and proud to be one. I program in Java, Ruby and .Net, PHP, Javascript. A lot of my recent work has been about CSS and UI design practices for large scale websites and Agile teams. I still while away hours dreaming up a web startup.
Learning Javascript the right way.
Monday, August 13, 2007
I think everyone's first experience with JavaScript is pretty much similar. You probably got some small code snippet from somewhere, or wrote a couple of lines of code, put it into a page, and popped open IE, ...just to see what it could do.From then on my guess is that most of you, like me, just went along writing JavaScript code, as and when fancy took us.
Can you possibly imagine doing the same thing in C ? or even Java for that matter. Of course not, because those are serious languages. Thats what I thought until I came across YUI and the amazing Douglas Crockford at the YUI theatre.
Soon after being totally brainwashed by Crockford and his lectures, I decided it was time for me to really learn JavaScript. After all programming is a serious business and for serious people right?
No sooner had I begun to look deeper into JavaScript when I found so many thing I was doing wrong when it came to this amazingly powerful and expressive language. For most part I was ignorant of JavaScript's prototypal inheritance and closures. Heck I had not even heard of JavaScript best practices.
So the week when I'm Goa, on well earned R&R, I'm going to sink myself into the world of proper JavaScript.
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