the nature of code

Code is truly a bizarre thing, symbols that move electrons around that allow you to read this blog post and it all boils down to 101011101000101111100010010.

To me this is incredible and I often wonder if people really understand the magic that is happening in all the devi...

Programming in the works part two

I've been plugging away at this little quiz app in my spare time. Making time to program or code can be tough. It is like any other creative disipline, it takes me 20 minutes to get into the right mindset to even begin.

The hard part is getting over that initia...

in the works

The project: build a quiz application in JavaScript.

One of the big challenges in programming is solving problems. When presented with an idea for an app or program there's normally a few questions that run through my mind:

• Where do I start?
• Do I really know how to do this?
• W...

function composition

In the "Beyond the Basics" series I'll be exploring more intermediate/advanced topics in JavaScript in an attempt to understand these topics more on a personal level.

On my Journey to learn JavaScript more deeply I can't help but come across a number of ideas around funct...

Why arrow functions?

Doing what is comfortable at the moment is not the best approach to learning how to code, for me anyway. Pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone is one of the most important parts of learning and getting good at a new skill. It's for that reason I have been making a co...

Closure

In this post I'm going to be taking a look at the idea of closure and how it can be used in JavaScript. Closure can seem almost mystical at first glance and can certainly be a mind bender.

Scope

Before diving any deeper into closure let's first wrestle with the idea of scope....

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  this

If you have spent some time reading or writing JavaScript, you will have no doubt came across the this keyword. In other object orientated languages, the this keyword refers to the current instance of the class. In JavaScript the value of this depends on the context of the function and wh...

funky functions part 2

In the last funky functions I looked at the silently passed argument, argument. I had full intention to talk about the other implicit argument this in part 2 but I found myself going down a different path.

There are so many ways to invoke functions in JavaScript I t...

A better way to event handle

In a previous post I took at look event handling in JavaScript. The title of this post is a clue you can expect more of the same in this one.This time, my goal is to show that there is merit to spending some time refactoring and tidying up code once your idea has b...

Funky functions part 1.

JavaScript has its quirks and that's one of the many things I like about it, but it does have some potential gotchas that are worth noting. In the 'Funky functions' series I'll be looking at some of these quirks as well as taking a deeper dive into functions in JavaScript...