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Crockford on JavaScript: The Complete Series
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Crockford on JavaScript: The Complete Series

on Apr 13th 2010 with 30 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Technology: JavaScript
  • Format: Video
  • Difficulty: Intermediate - Advanced

Douglas Crockford has been well described as the world’s foremost authority on JavaScript. His “JavaScript: the Good Parts” talks have been around for a while, but recently he concluded giving a five-part updated series, entitled Crockford on JavaScript. For any JavaScript developer, these videos are a must read; check them out below!

Volume 1: The Early Years

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Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript

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Act III: Function the Ultimate

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Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax

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Part 5: The End of All Things

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  • Tim

    He says ‘uhm’ way to often. I’ll try these video’s again tomorrow.

    • http://thinktankdesign.ca Robert Hurst

      This guy is talking about some very interesting and fundamental information. All you have to say is he said um too much? That isn’t really fair.

  • T

    Thanks, I had seen the first two, but forgot all about it waiting for the third. Nice to see Crockford on nettuts, some real substance here and a few giggles.

  • http://newarts.at Drazen Mokic

    You should put the videos only on the single view. My browser is stucking becouse of so much embed ;/

  • http://www.ifadey.com iFadey

    Wao!
    This series seems interesting :)
    Thanks for sharing!

  • http://ericmiraglia.com Eric Miraglia
    • Adam

      Eric,

      Are the transcripts still available? Would be great if they were since I am deaf.

      Adam

    • differui

      I can’t find the transcript!

  • http://www.designfollow.com designfollow

    great.

    thank you for the info.

  • bretticus

    This guy is a ball of sunshine! :)

    “HTML5 is a big step in the wrong direction”

    “CSS: Crappy Style System”

    “SQL: Optimized for exploitation”

    I do agree that javascript in the browser is inherently insecure. I do see how XSS could allow an attacker to impersonate you on the Web or load any script of the attacker’s choosing in your browser. These concepts are not new. We know about them. However, the notion that XSS automagically allows the attacker to pown your database is just FUD. He completely ignores that there are natural partitions between systems. Particularly server-side systems. Yes, I understand that SQL injection is possible. But it’s like he’s trying to say Javascript is to blame. Huh?

  • Cam

    Douglas Crockford is an inspiration. This has been such a great series, I watched them as they became available on YUI Theater. Even if your not a Javascript developer, they are very interesting for the history they give in programming and the web in general. Good to see they will reach a wider audience here.

  • http://thx2madre.tistory.com Irene

    Wow!
    Great :-)

  • tawfekov

    Wow this man is amazing

  • http://freshclickmedia.com Shane

    Just the sort of in depth content that I really like. Unfortunately, I’m getting a ‘Sorry but this video is no longer available’ message for the first video.

  • http://www.jordanwalker.net Jordan Walker

    Great videos from the man.

  • Cryx

    Thank you for putting out these videos! Seems like very interesting and important stuff!

  • Mark

    Well… This was quite bad – I mean – the message he’s giving is: “everything but JavaScript is bad. JavaScript is a total miracle, sure it has are some tiny mistakes, but they were made in good intention or because of higher power.” It’s just silly.

    I was just waiting when he’ll say that JS is answer to all our life problems. It’s almost like going to church: “God is solution to all our problems – and all the rest is just devil.” Meh. Too one sided and even contradictory; first he’s (almost) personal offended – when talking about: “how people don’t understand JS and how close-minded they are”, – after that, he’s laughing, and wondering how could anyone like CSS, and how people are offended when he has comments about it.

    Well, anyway… If you’re able to overlooked all the nonsense, the series aren’t so bad.

    • Roman

      that’s not true

      he simply points out, that javascript isn’t all bad (as many would have you believe!) and that it actually contains good ideas

      he must defend it harder, because so many people just plain hate it, often times without reason

      also.. I think Crockford would be the FIRST to say, that JS is by no means perfect and that there is a LOT of stuff that’s seriously broken about the language.. in fact im pretty sure he points that out regurarly even in this series ;)

      • KfC

        Yes he points out issues of JavaScript such as null and undefined, with(), etc …

        As mark said he is a bit too much biased sometimes.

        Otherwise great vids :P

  • Juggle

    Thx for sharing!

  • Dennis

    I love those kind of videos- very useful and in the same time really interesting to watch :)

  • stg

    thanks for sharing, but i did not like the video quality at all!

  • Ben

    “Sorry but this video is no longer available”

    :(

  • Zlatan Halilovic

    I just love this man. I want to pat him on the back and kiss him in the forehead :D

  • hater

    i like all video and know that all can be got download in digital format but writer not published the link whenever it’s need to put the reference link on top when you write about someone else content.

    so you are theif the publicity

  • http://website-in-a-weekend.net/ Dave Doolin

    Had dinner with Mr Crockford once, at Code Camp a couple of years. Nice guy. Fun to talk to.

    I guess it probably helped that I had absolutely no idea “who” he was.

  • http://facebook.com/sin2akshay Akshay Kumar

    File has been removed.. Please re-upload it.. I really waat to watch them..