There's a lot you can do with JavaScript: Images can swap when you move a mouse over them, form elements can influence each other on the fly, and calculations can be made without having to resort to a ...

JavaScript was invented in the mid-1990s as a programming language that could run inside a web page and make it interactive, says Kyle Simpson, director of web futures at Getify Solutions, which ...

‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to JavaScript Map and Set, explaining their differences, use cases, and how to effectively utilize them. JavaScript offers a rich set of data structures ...

Last week we enhanced a map interface with voice commands using annyang. This week we’ll extend our multi-modal interface even further by adding simple head-tracking using pico.js. Pico.js is a ...

If you’ve ever tried to learn how to code, you’ll probably know that practical examples make for the best learning experience. While it’s all well and good trying to focus purely on theory, tinkering ...

If you've gone through Thau's basic JavaScript tutorial (or you already know a bunch about the subject), Thau's advanced JavaScript course is just for you. In the previous tutorial, Thau taught the ...