Twin Cities Code Camp

Javascript has been one of the most hated languages of modern times, but the emergence of ajax has forced people to *gasp* actually learn the language. I'll talk about the history of javascript from it's origins to the present and review the parts of javascript that have allowed many developers to call a truce in the javascript hate war and use it for serious web development. We'll focus on prototypical inheritance and Javascript's features derived from functional programming models. At the end, we will look at one terrible peice of code and transform it into something much better.