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JavaScript The Good Parts - To see the real beauty of the language

  

 Recently, I finished reading the book "JavaScript The Good Parts" written by Douglas Crockford. Actually, many developers, although they have used JavaScript for many years, they haven't tried to learn it in a proper way. Therefore there is a great amount of poorly written codes in the world wide web. And also JavaScript said to be the world's most misunderstood programming language. So, this is a great book to read for any one who wants to see the real beauty of JavaScript.

The book has ten chapters and five appendixes which describes the good and bad parts of the language, and how to manipulate the good parts, and how to avoid the bad parts. I did read the book from the first page to the last page and found there is nothing to ignore or skip without reading. And my passion about JavaScript was increased exponentially because of this book, since I found there are many workarounds to overcome the limitations of the language.

After all, in any language there may be many bad features, but a cleaver programmer should know how to manipulate the good parts and avoid the bad parts with better programming practices, to solve the problems. 

For more information:
http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript

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