First in a series of talks from Douglas Crockford about the JavaScript language. These talks cover the JavaScript language, from the history, the language, advanced features, platforms, standards and programming style. Talks about inheritance, using functions to build objects, closures, as well as the basic JavaScript syntax. Also covers code conventions. JavaScript is a language that requires discipline.
Tim explains object orientation in the context of JavaScript, covering concepts like object literal, encapsulation, inheritance using prototype, composition through association and aggregation, polymorphism. Useful read for OO-aware developers to grasp some of the potential of JavaScript.
Dustin Diaz discusses the Object Literal form of JavaScript, pointing out benefits such as better organisation of code in a namespace / wrapper.