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Have you seen that Flanagan's JavaScript the Definitive Guide, the famously big book with the rhinoceros on its cover, has recently seen a new edition? I wonder
by azangru 6y ago
Have you seen that Flanagan's JavaScript the Definitive Guide, the famously big book with the rhinoceros on its cover, has recently seen a new edition? I wonder how deep its JavaScript goes :-)
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flanagan/dp/1491952024 https://www.amazon.co.uk/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-F...)
- petercooper 6y agoDavid has written about what's new, if anyone's interested: https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-edition.html https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-... I also (briefly) interviewed him about it here: https://superhighway.dev/david-flanagan-interview https://superhighway.dev/david-flanagan-interview
- ithrow 6y agoNo PDF version?
- jmchuster 6y agoI've always enjoyed the famously small book "Javascript: The Good Parts", albeit a bit dated at this point
- mayank 6y agoUnfortunately, the language has changed so much in recent years that I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that book anymore. A large number of fundamental features have been introduced since 2008, including async/await, lambda functions, class and extends syntax, proxies, and a ton of builtin methods like map() and forEach() on native list types.
- jmchuster 6y agoFor sure, these were the old days before jQuery was even considered a standard library. It was still duking it out with YUI and Prototype.
- chrstphrknwtn 6y agoI'm fairly sure Lambda functions have always been part of javascript?