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Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers is a digital book edited by James Hague and published in 1997. [1] [2] The book was originally formatted using HTML and sold via mail-order, shipped on a floppy disk by Dadgum Games for USD $20. [3] In 2002, Halcyon Days was made freely available on the web.
Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the data format JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint and minifier JSMin. [1]
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software is a (2007) Random House literary nonfiction book by Salon.com editor and journalist Scott Rosenberg.
The magazine said that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics. [ 8 ] A review of SICP as an undergraduate textbook by Philip Wadler noted the weaknesses of Scheme as an introductory language for a computer science course. [ 9 ]
React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library [5] [6] that aims to make building user interfaces based on components more "seamless". [5] It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies.
The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck. [1] Many other terms exist for this technique, often involving different (usually) inanimate objects, or pets such as a dog or a cat.
JScript 10.0 [5] is a separate dialect, also known as JScript .NET, which adds several new features from the abandoned fourth edition of the ECMAScript standard. It must be compiled for .NET Framework version 2 or version 4, but static type annotations are optional.
A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript code that allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, [1] especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies. [2] They can be included in a website by embedding it directly in the HTML via a script tag.