I love learning about programming languages. Every language has something unique about it that makes me think: “That’s a nice feature”. While just getting acquainted with a language doesn’t mean that you know how to write code using it, it’s still nice to see what’s out there.
JavaScript is a very misunderstood language. Being “the language of browsers” by perception makes us (wrongfully) think it’s a lesser language than C++ or Java. It also makes JavaScript a very popular language these days, as almost all interactive website include some JavaScript code.
If you want to learn about JavaScript, here are very educating four videos of Douglas Crockford of Yahoo!, including the interesting history of the language:
The JavaScript Programming Language 1/4
The JavaScript Programming Language 2/4
The JavaScript Programming Language 3/4
The JavaScript Programming Language 4/4