JavaScript is a powerful language with many capabilities. Yet, this is one of the most misused, feared, and often poorly utilized languages. In this hands-on workshop, we will demystify JavaScript. We will start with some of the fundamental dos and don’ts of this language, explore its dynamic capabilities, and learn to make use of its powerful prototypal inheritance.
Come prepared with your laptops to crank out some code and work along exercises.
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. You can reach him by email at [email protected] or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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