Level up with JavaScript
Ladybug Podcast
English - May 11, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 161 ratingsTechnology Business Careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
JavaScript is notorious for being one of the most popular, yet also one of the most despised programming languages to learn, so today we’re covering some of the intermediate and advanced JavaScript concepts! We’ll discuss convoluted topics like generators, prototypal inheritance, and the rendering engine.
Knowing intermediate JavaScript concepts like the call stack, context, scope, the prototype chain, higher order functions, async programming, and the event loop is invaluable and will help with learning frameworks. The fundamentals won't change even if the ecosystem does.
Show notes
03:24 - Functional Programming vs OOP
06:28 - Prototypal inheritance
20:34 - Higher order functions
25:54 - Callback functions
27:10 - Closures
27:46 - Scope + Context
31:12 - Iterators & Generators
34:26 - Rendering engine
37:54 - Call Stack
40:33 - Event loop
43:39 - Throttle and debounce
46:21 - Asynchronous programming
52:09 - Hoisting
54:44 - Primitive vs reference
56:59 - Debugging
58:48 - Shoutouts
Resources
Functional Programming vs OOP
Lydia Halle’s blog post on the prototype chain
Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
Ali's What is Functional Programming?
What Tamagotchis Can Teach You About ES6 Generators - Jenn Creighton
CodeNewbie: How do Browsers Work?
What the heck is the event loop anyway? - Philip Roberts
Throttling and debouncing
Debugging Episode