Day 16 and once again JavaScript doesn't fail to bring about a WTF moment.

Consider the following object:

var anObject = {left: 1, right: 2};

if we call each of the methods of this object it does what we expect:

> anObject.left
1
> anObject.right;
2

But here's the kicker. Let's …

Nothing today. The resistance is strong, and I'm very close to giving up again. I don't like this language and never have. If it disappeared tomorrow I'd shed no tears. It represents everything that I hate about web programming and because it is pretty much a standard that won't go …

Day 14 started up Chapter 4 of Eloquent Javascriot. This portion started up with arrays, which got me into a tangent on playing with passing an array to a function. Take for instance:

> Math.max(1, 2, 3);
3

You'd think that the following would work:

> var arr = [1, 2 …

Day 13 of the 30 Day Learning Challenge and I finished off Chapter 3 of Eloquent JavaScript. There's some really good advice in this book about how to build functions (essentially make the function have as few side effects as possible). I did two of the examples. Here's the code …

(Sharp eyed readers will note that day 11 is missing. Unfortunately I have many excuses for why that is, but no results to show for it. Mea culpa).

Today's lesson continues the functions chapter of Eloquent JavaScript. I continued working on understanding JavaScript's functions and got a brief taste of …