JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it also ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

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A lightning-fast crash course on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. From its 1995 origins as Mocha in ...

Callback Functions Callback functions are essential tools in asynchronous programming that allow developers to specify actions that should occur after a task is completed.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.