When we talk about instruments, sometimes the guitar gets all the credit. Of course guitars are great, but an electric guitar on its ownâeven a hollow-bodyâis only so loud. For giving one of the world's favorite instruments its voice, guitar amplifiers deserve a little love too.
This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language, showing you how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful libraries and applications. Along the way, we cover many of the recent innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.
Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm that uses abstraction (in the form of classes and objects) to create models based on the real world environment. An object-oriented application uses a collection of objects, which communicate by passing messages to request services.