https://bradleycarey.com/tags/book-review/ Recent content in Book Review on bradleycarey.com Hugo en Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:22:18 -0400 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/2013-03-10-book-review-javascript-the-good-parts-by-douglas-crockford/ Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:50:08 -0400 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/2013-03-10-book-review-javascript-the-good-parts-by-douglas-crockford/ <p>JavaScript, which was originally thrown together over a span of 10 days, has its share of bad parts. Of course, many of these have been remedied over the years thanks to ECMA standards process and the creation of high performance JS engines such as Google’s V8. Enter the highly divisive and opinionated book from the original JS guru, Douglas Crockford.</p> <p>I thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt that I learned so much from it even though it is a shorter book. Though it is necessary to state that this book is not for JS beginners. The main thing that I did not enjoy are the reliance upon the railroad diagrams, which are not very intuitive to anyone who has previously not implemented some sort of context-free grammar (which I would wager is a majority of JS programmers).</p>