The Joy of JavaScript

front matter

preface

I learned to program computers in a traditional, academic way. The universities I attended based their curricula primarily on class-oriented languages such as Java, C++, and C#. When I came out of those programs, my brain was trained to think that classes were the best (maybe even only) way to design programs and that anything else would be an abomination.

Years later, like any other developer in the world, I stumbled onto JavaScript—I should say jQuery, because at the time, jQuery was JavaScript. JavaScript was diametrically opposite to most of what I had learned. I struggled with every fundamental aspect of programming, including representing domain models, encapsulating behavior and data into logical modules, and dealing ...