JavaScript is lingua franca of the Web. It's pervasive and since 1999 a standard ( ECMAScript 262). Yes, there are other technologies you can use: Flash, Java Applets, Dart, but none of these have the overwhelming support and community that JavaScript does. Over the years it has been maligned as a poorly designed language but I will argue that it has just been misunderstood. This talk will focus on the fundamentals of the language and its integration with the browser, the DOM and server communication via JSON and Ajax.
In the talk Bryan will present:
* Language fundamentals
* Object-Oriented programming
* Functional programming
* DOM APIs
* Event model
* Odds and ends