Based on Simon Willison's original 2005 eTech talk, Simon expands this into a full article covering the expressive functionality of JavaScript. He covers the basics of JavaScript: literals, variables, functions, scope, control flow, objects, classes, inner functions and closures. Everything a developer needs to know before diving into more advanced JavaScript.
Douglas Crockford's presentation on Advanced JavaScript. He covers topics such as inheritance, modules, debugging, efficiency and JSON.