Mark Daggett - Expert JavaScript

Expert JavaScript

Mark E. Daggett

Expert JavaScript

Copyright 2013 by Mark E. Daggett

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For Erika, who knew me before I could program and probably liked me better that way.

Contents at a Glance

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About the Author

Mark Daggett is a pioneering New Media artist, professional developer, and CEO of Humansized Inc., a social innovations lab in Kansas City. He is a co-creator of .

About the Technical Reviewer

Jonathan Fielding is a web developer based in the UK, working in the marketing industry as a Senior Developer. He is the lead developer on the responsive SimpleStateManager open-source project along with regularly contributing to a variety of other open-source projects.

Acknowledgments

Much of this book was informed and influenced by a group of JavaScript experts, without whom I would have made several colossal missteps during the writing of this text. Specifically, I would like to thank Rick Waldron, Chris Williams, and Raquel Vlez for help on the Nodebots chapter. Rick, in particular, graciously pored over several revisions of this chapter and greatly improved the example code. I would also like to thank Kris Kowal for his detailed review of my chapter on Asynchronous JavaScript and Tim Caswell for his insights on how to explain coroutines and generators clearly. Jarrod Overson offered very helpful insight on the code quality chapter, and Jason Huggins very graciously provided me plenty of resources on his Tapster bot. Additional thanks goes to Bliksem Tobey, who provided the initial encouragement to start writing this book.