Vital JavaScript
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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Vital JavaScript
VI·TAL adj. "Of, relating to, or characteristic of life."
"Vital JavaScript" is a series of screencasts that teach intermediate and advanced JavaScript programming techniques.
This presentation introduces the series.
This presentation introduces the series.
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by Reginald Braithwaite
Reg “raganwald” Braithwaite is proof that somewhere, a village is missing its idiot. Either that, or a combinatory forest is missing its Idiot Bird, nobody is really sure. His interests include constructing surreal numbers, deconstructing hopelessly egocentric nulls, and celebrating the joy of programming.
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LIFE
Life is a two-dimensional cellular automata. Each cell is a finite state machine.
Life's Finite State Machine
"Obvious" Features
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State as a Matrix
Simple, Copy-Everything Code
A Desert Traveller
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Improved Features
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State as a list of live cells
Elaborate Special-Case Code
The code is much more complex.
State as a QuadTree
ANOTHER QUIZ
Sub-Squares
High-Level Code
Algorithms
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It's big enough to need DESIGN:
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RECURSIVE STRUCTURES
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Refactoring
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Writing Code to be Read
Tiled Interfaces
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Drawing with a Canvas
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Implementing Undo/Redo
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And More!
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http://vitaljs.com
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