JavaScript continues to be a language of choice for programmers who want to create applications that work regardless of the platform. Yet elements of the language still remain a mystery even to ...

Can you explain object-oriented programming to me like I'm 5 years old? Probably not. But here's a straightforward explanation of what OOP is ...

Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

In Javascript the function occupies a rather unusual role – it’s a first class object. That is a Javascript function is an instance of a Function object. This much is fairly well know but it’s also a ...

Object-oriented languages, such as Java, have formulated the ground rules for how developers generally handle data in complex software and web applications. More specifically, the object-oriented ...

The defining characteristic of a really good programmer is laziness. That doesn’t mean stupid or ignorant, though. The really good lazy programmer doesn’t write (then need to debug and test) 100 lines ...

In object-oriented programming (OOP), an object is a reusable unit of code that can perform certain actions and interact with other objects in a program. In OOP languages, all objects have some ...

Object-oriented JavaScript can mean different things to different people. In this case the approach is to treat JavaScript as a language in its own right rather trying to make it fit in with the way ...