{"id":114,"date":"2020-02-10T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/douglas-crockford-presents-his-new-book-how-javascript-works\/"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T14:29:36","slug":"douglas-crockford-presents-his-new-book-how-javascript-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/javascript\/douglas-crockford-presents-his-new-book-how-javascript-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Crockford and his book \u201cHow JavaScript works\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t
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  1. Who is Douglas Crockford<\/a>
  2. Chapter 2: How Numbers Work<\/a>
  3. Chapter 24: How Optimisation Works<\/a><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n

    More than ten years have passed since Douglas Crockford<\/span><\/strong> released his first book about JavaScript<\/span>. It\u2019s now time to embrace a new one. It’s supposed to shed a light on different aspects of the language, point out the problems and discover possible solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Who is Douglas Crockford<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you\u2019ve been in the JavaScript<\/span> world for a while, you must know Douglas Crockford<\/a>. At least you most probably have seen his name in some programming book or an article. He is one of the JavaScript<\/span> pioneers, who wrote thousands of lines of production code when we all still kids. He is an active contributor to JavaScript<\/span> standards, tools<\/span> and related web technologies, as well as an author of JSON<\/span> format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Back in 2008, Douglas Crockford<\/span> wrote a book called \u201cJavaScript<\/span>: The Good Parts<\/a>\u201d, which became quite popular among web developers<\/span>. But time goes fast and especially in the frontend world – it\u2019s flying with the speed of sound. After about 10 years, another book by this author has recently been released. It\u2019s called \u201cHow JavaScript<\/span> works<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I was lucky to attend the talk by Mr Crockford at Codemotion Amsterdam 2019<\/a>, where he presented his new book to the web community. The talk was in a format I\u2019ve never seen before: the speaker was literally reading his book to the audience. He prepared a few interesting slides and the talk mostly consisted of two chapters of the book, mixed with Q&A sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The fun fact is that the book\u2019s chapters and pages start with the number zero and it took some effort to manage this with a publishing company. As the author says: \u201cThe book is written by a programmer<\/span> for programmers<\/span>\u201d. You can clearly see the chapters list is formatted in our lovely JSON<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n