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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
Angus Croll
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Description for If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
Paperback. If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript explores what it would look like if wordsmiths like William Shakespeare and Jack Kerouac were to write a short JavaScript program in their own unique style. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: UMW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 492.
What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program? In If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, author Angus Croll imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths. The result is a peculiar and charming combination of prose, poetry, and programming. The best authors are those who obsess about language and the same goes for JavaScript developers. To master either craft, you must experiment with language to develop your own style, your own idioms, and your own expressions. To that end, If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript playfully bridges the worlds of programming ... Read more
What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program? In If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, author Angus Croll imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths. The result is a peculiar and charming combination of prose, poetry, and programming. The best authors are those who obsess about language and the same goes for JavaScript developers. To master either craft, you must experiment with language to develop your own style, your own idioms, and your own expressions. To that end, If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript playfully bridges the worlds of programming ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
No Starch Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781593275853
SKU
V9781593275853
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Angus Croll
Angus Croll is obsessed with JavaScript and literature in equal measure. He works on Twitter's UI framework team where he co-authored the Flight framework. He writes the influential Javascript, Javascript (http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/) blog and speaks at conferences worldwide.
Reviews for If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript
"A charming and diverting series of short and familiar coding exercises told in the style of a myriad of classic and contemporary writers. Lots of fun and technically challenging at the same time." —Benedetti Tech