There will be a unique and interesting talk this Saturday in the CSE building. Douglas Crockford of Yahoo! is visiting in conjunction with Yahoo!’s Hack-U event currently in progress. Crockford is perhaps the world’s foremost living authority on the JavaScript programming language. He also created the popular data interchange format known as JSON. Before joining Yahoo!, he previously worked on games, music, and multimedia at companies such as Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount.
He will be giving a presentation titled, “JavaScript: The Good Parts.”
In this talk Douglas will show several interesting features of the JavaScript language and why it is both beautiful and misunderstood.
He will also discuss the evolution of the language and some new features due to be added in its next version.
This talk will be held Sat, Feb 21 2009, 3:30pm, in the CSE Atrium.
(The Saturday time is because this coincides with the end of the Hack-U event.) This event is open to CSE majors and non-majors, so anyone is welcome to attend.
For more information, check out the links below, including the last link to a video of another of his talks:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/reges/crockford.pdf
http://www.crockford.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507
Hope to see you there!
Marty Stepp