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36 Comments on “Crockford on JavaScript – Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain”

  2. *”That hardly ever happens.”*
    is another way of saying “It happens.”

    Crockford on JavaScript – Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain

  4. #programming #style
    I found this video highly interesting, and it’s not just about JavaScript,
    but programming styles in general.

    if (…)
    {
    }

    *versus*

    if (…) {
    }

  5. Great speaker and a very good lecture on your brain and programming.

  7. Need something to make your day better… Crockford on your Brain and
    Javascript.

  10. I spent couple of hours watching this JavaScript series – and while it is
    good in its entirety, should I recommend just a single part, this Section 8
    would be it. It was definitely nice to get closer to JavaScript and to get
    to know Douglas Crockford as well.

  12. “We like to think that we spend most of our time power typing, I’m being
    productive, I’m writing programs, but we don’t. We spend most of our time
    looking into the abyss. Saying, my god, what have I done. How am I ever
    going to make this work, and once we figure it out we forget that we did
    all this.”

    This is a great talk, even if you don’t use JavaScript. If you watch this
    then please add a comment of what you think his main point was.

  18. #programming #style
    I found this video highly interesting, and it’s not just about JavaScript,
    but programming styles in general.

    if (…)
    {
    }

    *versus*

    if (…) {
    }

  19. “This is not Java, this is a different language. Write in the language
    you’re writing in. This is a different language; it has different rules,
    different conventions, different good parts, and you need to respect that.

    …

    “I’ve thought for a long time if I could take a clean sheet of paper and
    write a new language which corrects every defect in JavaScript but retains
    all of the goodness in it — because there is a lot of goodness in it — I
    would not have come up with anything like Dart. … It feels like it’s trying
    go back and more Java-like.” – +Douglas Crockford, one of the great
    ambassadors for programming in general and JavaScript especially.

  20. Some pretty insightful stuff about the human brain and computer
    programming.

  22. New to Javascript? Or perhaps you have been writing it for a while but were
    confused by strange syntax or behavior. Douglas Crockford, author of
    Javascript The Good Parts, tries to highlight some of the great features of
    Javascript as well as some of the more objectionable parts.

    The overall focus of the talk is on the notion of code style and the
    importance of style, not as a mechanism of self expression, but rather a
    tool for imparting intent clearly even in a language that allows a great
    degree of expression.

  24. Only just seeing this now but really enjoyed it. 🙂
    #javascript +Douglas Crockford #yui

  31. Just finished watching +Douglas Crockford’s talk on programming styles. And
    while I don’t agree with his proposed style in general, I do agree with
    most of his ideas.

    I’d also like seeing JavaScript get smaller. Some of the ES.next proposals
    really creep me out because I always see them as highly unnecessary to be
    included as syntatical abstractions directly in the language, exchanging
    the ability of keeping the whole language at my head at any given time with
    performance and user friendliness for edge cases, which could be covered by
    libraries.

    All in all, pretty nice (and funny) talk :3

    EDIT: Oh yeah, my thoughts on code style is that showing intention and
    structure is far more important than “reading as English” or anything. As
    this, I’ve recently moved to using a LISP-inspired indentation and coding
    style for JS. So far, I’ve found it rather easier to reason about what the
    programs are doing, and the relationships between each statement and
    expression :3

  34. Excellent talk on programming style, JSLint, and the plight of the
    Paleolithic programmer #javascript

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