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.
C++ supports object-oriented programming, but OO is not intrinsic to the language. In fact, the main function isn't a member of an object. In smalltalk or Java, you can't tie your shoes (or write Hello, world) without at least one class.