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##Which sections were interesting?

  • Chapter 3 on the nature of JS, scoping, and prototyping.

##Which sections did you totally skim?

  • My constitution finally failed me and I largely skimmed chapter 17. It is way too long and confusing. I was getting nothing out of it.

##Do you think the reading was valuable?

  • Not to a beginner. This is extremely dense text with entirely too much terminology/jargon. It is extremely difficult to understand the purpose and use of most of what is described. I can painstakingly deconstruct from the actual code examples what many (but not nearly all) of these tools do, but having no context on when or why to use these tools makes it very frustrating. This book is a tome meant to teach slightly more JS to people who already know JS.

##Which topics were notably confusing?

  • Prototyping, most of chapter 17, IIFEs (use of, not the actual code), and a lot of syntax examples where the moving pieces aren't really explained in detail.
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