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PanelJoe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) AJ O\u2019Neal (twitter github blog)
Discussion
\xa000:56 - Why JavaScript is hard to learn02:30 - This05:30 - Bind09:11 - Browsers11:01 - Class-based inheritancePrototypal inheritance
16:37 - New function18:51 - Closures20:51 - JavaScript is asynchronous22:14 - Variable scopingHoisting
26:14 - Numbers and math(AJ joins the podcast) == \u2019s vs === \u2019s
32:15 - Things that make JavaScript hard after learning JavaScriptPackage management
35:06 - Numbers (cont\u2019d)Crypto Bitwise operations Strings Effective JavaScript by David Herman 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman
40:16 - Changing/Evolving JavaScript43:31 - Environmental reasons that make JavaScript HardTooling
48:25 - Few projects are primarily JavaScript49:07 - Adolescence and the JavaScript Ecosystem53:59 - Running JavaScript
\xa0PicksSharpie Metallic Silver (AJ) The how and why of auto-executing functions (in JavaScript) (AJ) The JavaScript Unicycle (AJ) RSA (Tim) OUYA (Tim) Borderlands 2 (Joe) MechWarrior Tactics (Chuck) Testing Clientside JavaScript (Joe) Fire Up Ember.js | PeepCode (Chuck) Meet Chef (Part 2 of 2) | PeepCode (Chuck)
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\xa0TIM:\xa0 I\u2019m just learning lots of math and attempting to do real math in JavaScript is a fun challenge.[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at\xa0 Bluebox.net.][This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]CHUCK:\xa0 Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 48 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.JOE:\xa0 Howdy!CHUCK:\xa0 We also have Tim Caswell.TIM:\xa0 Hello!CHUCK:\xa0 And I\u2019m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And when this episode goes out, you\u2019re going to have about two weeks left if you wanted to sign up for my Rails Ramp Up course. You\u2019ll find that at RailsRampUp.com. I\u2019ve been working hard on that.This week, we\u2019re going to talk about why JavaScript is hard. And I think it was Tim that came on and said, \u201cSo, we\u2019re talking about why JavaScript sucks?\u201d And I didn\u2019t want to call it that but at the same time, it\u2019s one of the -- I think the reasons that people find JavaScript hard and the reasons some people say that JavaScript sucks are kind of the same thing. So, if you want to think of it that way, go right ahead.But I kind of wanted to talk about this for a couple of reasons. One was that I was at the users\u2019 group meeting last week and they talked about some of the things that make JavaScript hard and I don\u2019t remember what they all were. But there were a few things that, there are some concepts that are markedly different from what you find in other languages or at least some of the concepts exist in the other languages but they aren\u2019t kind of as important or as in-your-face as they are in JavaScript.Anyway, the other reason is that I was thinking about when I first started this show. And when I first started the show, I was a web developer that was kind of like, \u201cjQuery, whoo!\u201d And thought jQuery and JavaScript, you know, were mostly the same in the sense that the only way to write sane JavaScript was to use jQuery. And so, I wanted to talk around some of the things that I\u2019ve learned over the last year from the other panelists and help people who are coming into JavaScript understand the real power behind some of these other concepts.So that being said, let\u2019s go ahead and get started. I\u2019m a little curious as to what you guys think are some of the hard things that people run into in JavaScript, like why do they struggle with it?TIM:\xa0 Alright. So,

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