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Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years

YUI Library · 252.2K views · 2011-09-10 · 1:42:09

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Overview

Douglas Crockford's first Yahoo lecture puts JavaScript in historical context. He traces the language's structure and quirks back through the early decades of computer science and programming language history.

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HN repeatedly recommends the Crockford series as a must-watch history of computing and programming languages, and as a way to learn to think in JavaScript.

Recommended by 10 HN people across 10 months · HN mentions 2013–2022

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gravypod · 2016-06 · Strong recommendation

I'd strongly recommend putting this link in there: [VIDEO] David, if you see this, I'd like to thank you for these talks as they have reshaped the way I think about software development. I've got more from these then my classes at college have given me do far.

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kornakiewicz · 2015-07 · Strong recommendation

The Crockford's lecture about history of web-development (starting far before first computing machines and ending on javascript) is definitely must-watch. It's not so detailed because it's not a book, but gives a good overview. [VIDEO]

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napsterbr · 2014-03 · Strong recommendation

Hard to say if it's the best, but Crockford series on javascript is just awesome. I highly recommend it. [VIDEO] (Browse the related videos to see the others)

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