This is a popular video series by Doug Crockford that is very helpful to those just getting introduced to JavaScript.

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Volume 1: The Early Years

Synopsis

Doug puts the JavaScript programming language in its proper historical context, tracing the language's structure and conventions (and some of its quirks) back to their roots in the early decades of computer science.

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Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript

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Doug surveys the features of the JavaScript programming language.

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Act III: Function the Ultimate

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Doug continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a discussion of functions in JavaScript. "Functions are the very best part of JavaScript," Crockford says. "It's where the power is, it's where the beauty is." Watch the video to learn why.

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Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax

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Doug continues his lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with an analysis of the Document Object Model (DOM) and an exploration of Ajax.

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Part 5: The End of All Things

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Doug concludes his five-part lecture series on the JavaScript programming language with a review of issues related to security and performance in JavaScript.

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Scene 6: Loopage

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Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously, JavaScript is going to make it right, radically transforming the way we write applications. Again. In the Loop of History, it has all happened before, but it has never happened like this. This is why you should care about the emergence of server-side JavaScript and the excitement around projects like Node.js -- not because they're at the sharp end of a trend, but because they're paving the road toward the next big revolution in software.

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Level 7: ECMAScript 5: The New Parts

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In Level 7 of the Crockford on JavaScript series, Doug outlines the changes made to the language in the 5th edition of the ECMAScript standard.

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Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain

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In this keynote talk from YUIConf 2011, Doug drops some science to explain why code style is important in programming -- particularly in JavaScript -- and how tools like JSLint can help.