JS Whirlwind Tour

What makes JavaScript different to object oriented curly bracket languages

What's common

• Control Statements (if, else)
• Curly Brackets
• Semicolons
• Loop Statements (for, while)
• Operations (Almost)

What's different

• Dynamic typing
• Data types
• No visibilities like 'public', 'private'...
• First class functions
• Auto insertion of ;

What's different

• Expressions evaluating
• Function scopes
• Hoisting
• Not Object Oriented: Prototypes
• Confusing 'this' scope

Getting Better

• Use JSHint
• Read "JavaScript: The Good Parts"
• Read the f*** manual MDN