JavaScript Quiz Set

bolshchikov:

JavaScript quiz is the good instrument to distinguish between  JS ninjas, JS developers, and JS experts. Here is a set of JS tests, sorted by difficulty.

Beginner:

http://madebyknight.com/javascript-scope/

Intermediate:

https://github.com/nathansmith/javascript-quiz

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/02/16/my-javascript-quiz/

Expert:

http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/the-quiz/

http://perfectionkills.com/javascript-quiz/

Badass JavaScript: PolyCrypt: A WebCrypto API Polyfill In JavaScript Funded by the US Department of Homeland Security

badassjs:

The W3C is working on a cryptography API for JavaScript, which will enable JavaScript to perform “basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to…

Badass JavaScript: The JavaScript DSP API, RiverTrail, and the Future of JavaScript Parallelization

badassjs:

A few months ago, Opera drafted a spec for a new DSP (Digital Signal Processing) API for JavaScript. This API would enable access to special vector instructions available to modern processors from JavaScript, and could possibly enable speedups of vectorizable JavaScript code. Instead of writing…

JavaScript for Assholes - Thom Bradford was sick of being bored to death by computer books, so he set out to write one in his own voice, and as his own voice is one from Boston, Massachusetts, it’s laced with profanity and a glaring lack of political correctness. Thom Bradford doesn’t feel as if a computer book has to read like a college text, and he also don’t think that learning needs to be such a serious endeavor. Thom Bradford’s goal is to create a book where the reader feels compelled to read every page, even if only to find out what the insane author is going to say next, and regardless of whether or not you agree with my opinions. In the process though, he’s hoping you’ll accidentally learn a thing or two.
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JavaScript for Assholes Screenshot - Your First Shitty Program

JavaScript for Assholes - Thom Bradford was sick of being bored to death by computer books, so he set out to write one in his own voice, and as his own voice is one from Boston, Massachusetts, it’s laced with profanity and a glaring lack of political correctness. Thom Bradford doesn’t feel as if a computer book has to read like a college text, and he also don’t think that learning needs to be such a serious endeavor.

Thom Bradford’s goal is to create a book where the reader feels compelled to read every page, even if only to find out what the insane author is going to say next, and regardless of whether or not you agree with my opinions. In the process though, he’s hoping you’ll accidentally learn a thing or two.

Sweet.js brings hygienic macros from languages like Scheme and Rust to JavaScript. Macros allow you to sweeten the syntax of JavaScript and craft the language you’ve always wanted. Wish the function keyword in JavaScript wasn’t so long? What if you could define functions with def instead? Macros let you do this! Sweeten your JavaScript. Hygienic Macros for JavaScript!
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Sweet.js brings hygienic macros from languages like Scheme and Rust to JavaScript. Macros allow you to sweeten the syntax of JavaScript and craft the language you’ve always wanted.

Wish the function keyword in JavaScript wasn’t so long? What if you could define functions with def instead?
Macros let you do this!

Sweeten your JavaScript.

Hygienic Macros for JavaScript!

DOM Enlightenment is not an exhaustive reference on DOM scripting or JavaScript. It may, however, be the most exhaustive book written about DOM scripting without the use of a library/framework. The lack of authorship around this topic is not without good reason. Most technical authors are not willing to wrangle this topic because of the differences that exist among legacy browsers and their implementations of the DOM specifications (or lack thereof).
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DOM Enlightenment Chapter 1 Screenshot

DOM Enlightenment is not an exhaustive reference on DOM scripting or JavaScript. It may, however, be the most exhaustive book written about DOM scripting without the use of a library/framework. The lack of authorship around this topic is not without good reason. Most technical authors are not willing to wrangle this topic because of the differences that exist among legacy browsers and their implementations of the DOM specifications (or lack thereof).

A Shiny New Me: Bridging The PhoneGap: ChildBrowser Plugin

burkeholland:

This is the first post in a series that I have been meaning to write for a while. PhoneGap (now called Cordova) is the defacto platform for building native applications with HTML5. In the past few years we have seen quite a few JavaScript frameworks pop up to help you with your UI, which has…

scttnlsn: Why I’m excited about JavaScript and Node.js

scttnlsn:

I’m really excited about the web. For the first time, I am seeing it as a medium to deliver applications that rival native user experience and take advantage of the web’s distributed nature. With browsers becoming increasingly capable, applications can now be built entirely with JavaScript and run…