Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language

Douglas Crockford (JavaScript Architect, Yahoo), in 2006, talks about the JavaScript Language, its history, how it came to be what it is today, and the quirks and gotchas of the language.

This video is a part of three video series. You can download the slides for the talk at http://yuiblog.com/assets/crockford/advancedjavascript.zip

JavaScript is the World's most misunderstood language. Plagued by misconceptions, bad implementations and lack of good documentation and books has left many a web developer to ignore this powerful language. But with the advent of  AJAX and JavaScript libraries like jQuery, the last 6-7 years has had a huge shift in its thinking about JavaScript. This video is a must watch as Crockford creates an interest in the language.