A re-introduction to JavaScript - MDC

Cool, I wrote these notes up for a conference tutorial I gave a few years ago, glad to see they've taken on a useful life of their own.

If you can't do anything without a book (Like me), get "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan"<p>I know you can print things out and bind them but it's just not the same.

Having almost no Javascript experience, I always thought the language looked messy but with this great introduction everything seems so clear.<p>I found an error:<p><pre><code> switch(1 + 3): case 2 + 2: yay(); break; default: neverhappens(); } </code></pre> The ":" after the first line should be a "{".

This a good introduction, but Douglas Crockford's <i>A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language</i> [<a href="http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html" rel="nofollow">http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html</a>] is shorter <i>and</i> more detailed — and a perfectly adequate introduction if you already know other programming languages.

credits to boucher: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601926" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601926</a>

It seems that the wiki page doesn't say anything about the `delete` and `let` operators. Those are very useful operators that should be read about. (just search `delete` or `let` on MDC)

Also on HN, <a href="http://javascript.infogami.com/Javascript_in_Ten_Minutes" rel="nofollow">http://javascript.infogami.com/Javascript_in_Ten_Minutes</a>, is another good article.