Eloquent JavaScript

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

The new SICP.

How dare you compare a legendary artifact explaining the essence of programming with a pathetic JavaScript tutorial?

Thanks for this

It's a lot more concise then SICP. Lisp programmers could learn something about writing books.

>>4
SICP has nothing to do with Lisp, idiot.
IHBT.

be sure and get a standalone Javascript compiler so you dont have to fool with browser I/O
http://www.jsdb.org/

>>5
Are you fucking retarded.

>>7
I don't know whether >>5 is, but you are.

>>7
I guess TAoCP is really about MIX assembly, after all.

>>9
MIX assembly is only discussed in some part of TAoCP. However, Lisp is used all throughout SICP.

It looks pretty crappy.

Starting with with imperative programming sucks, see SICP lecture 5A for reasons.
It mixes concepts with irrelevant implementation details.
Why should students care about IEEE-754? Who gives a shit that you can use \n to get a newline and \t to get a tab in a string (and where are the rest of the escapes?). Does one really have to know how strings are ordered in Javascript? Perhaps the problem is the uncomfotable split between ``introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general''.
That's just skimming Chapter 2.

I'm no teacher, but the writer obviously isn't either. He's just a shithead that finds it necessary to assault you with XKCD ( http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter10.html#key6 ).

If you understand French and want a good laugh, read http://www.siteduzero.com/tutoriel-3-10601-.html
It tries to teach both Java and programming at the same time.
Exercise to the reader: count the smilies.

JavaScript has Gotos?
When there is a loop sitting inside another loop, a break or continue statement will affect only the inner loop. Sometimes you want to jump out of the outer loop. To be able to refer to a specific loop, loop statements can be labelled. A label is a name (any valid variable name will do), followed by a colon (:).

outer: for (var sideA = 1; sideA < 10; sideA++) {
  inner: for (var sideB = 1; sideB < 10; sideB++) {
    var hypotenuse = Math.sqrt(sideA * sideA + sideB * sideB);
    if (hypotenuse % 1 == 0) {
      print("A right triangle with straight sides of length ",
            sideA, " and ", sideB, " has a hypotenuse of ",
            hypotenuse, ".");
      break outer;
    }
  }
}

>>11
He's just a shithead that finds it necessary to assault you with XKCD ( http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter10.html#key6 ).
What the fuck, what has the noble art of programming become.

>>12
That's the standard ``learn how 2 hax'' tutorial.

>>13
It's a reserved word, but it has no goto. You can use the magical return statement and procedures for some cases, but don't do it.

>>12
       case 1: System.out.println("Ce nombre est tout petit");
         break;
 
       case 2: System.out.println("Ce nombre est tout petit");
         break;
 
       case 3: System.out.println("Ce nombre est un peu plus grand");
         break;
 
       case 4: System.out.println("Ce nombre est un peu plus grand");
         break;What a fucking idiot.

whoa, i did not know object.watch existed..