Thanks for writing. It's good to have an up to date list of go-to resources.
The title is a bit misleading but it worked cause I clicked on it :)
TL;DR I love javascript
.. going back to 2009 ish ..
For me javascript was the language that allowed me to find pleasure in
programming. When I first started working I was maintaining ASP Classic pages,
mostly written in VB script. As I had 'some college' in CS and AI, I found VB
script was holding me back, lacking abstraction features.
Back then Douglas Crockford and YUI started making their lectures available.
Curious to learn a little more about Javascript I started watching the Crockford lectures. That was amazing, almost like free college on demand
:)
I learned that the language had functions as values, a prototype system and
lazy evaluation. It made up for everything VB script lacked. I
started tinkering with the language a lot. I even made a web crawler in
JScript for fun.
Becoming proficient in javascript allowed me to pick up more interesting tasks
at work as well as help others with javascript (or jQuery) problems. So that
was some time well invested. Also finding myself building stuff just for fun
made me aware that I found the right profession.
Family man, musician, illustrator, software developer, and Microsoft MVP living in North GA. Runs on a high-octane mixture of caffeine and JavaScript, and is made entirely of bacon.
My love/hate relationship with JavaScript (and JScript!) began when I was building classic ASP apps in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Thanks for sharing your story :)
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Thanks for writing. It's good to have an up to date list of go-to resources.
The title is a bit misleading but it worked cause I clicked on it :)
TL;DR I love javascript
.. going back to 2009 ish ..
For me javascript was the language that allowed me to find pleasure in
programming. When I first started working I was maintaining ASP Classic pages,
mostly written in VB script. As I had 'some college' in CS and AI, I found VB
script was holding me back, lacking abstraction features.
Back then Douglas Crockford and YUI started making their lectures available.
Curious to learn a little more about Javascript I started watching the
Crockford lectures. That was amazing, almost like free college on demand
:)
I learned that the language had functions as values, a prototype system and
lazy evaluation. It made up for everything VB script lacked. I
started tinkering with the language a lot. I even made a web crawler in
JScript for fun.
Becoming proficient in javascript allowed me to pick up more interesting tasks
at work as well as help others with javascript (or jQuery) problems. So that
was some time well invested. Also finding myself building stuff just for fun
made me aware that I found the right profession.
That's why I love javascript.
My love/hate relationship with JavaScript (and JScript!) began when I was building classic ASP apps in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Thanks for sharing your story :)