Ivo Wetzel covers some of the quirks of the JavaScript language. Some of these cause subtle bugs, some overturn conventional wisdom. It covers toString on numbers. Covers the advanced JavaScript features such as prototypal inheritance, this, closures, anonymous wrappers, type-casting, automatic semicolon insertion and hoisting of function and variable declarations.
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.
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.