JavaScript

Programming assignments in CS559 will use the Javascript programming language. We will help you learn Javascript, if you aren’t already familiar with it.

I used to give a “JavaScript tip of the day” at the beginning of every lecture. Students preferred that the lectures focused on course material. So I turned it into a single (long) video lecture…

JS Tips Video JS Tips Slides

There is a tutorial on how to use the JavaScript Debugger in Visual Studio Code as a Workbook on GitHub. It is in the form of a workbook: you should clone it and work through it.

If you want something even simpler, you can try the debugger in Chrome. Here is a quick video on how to get started with the Chrome Debugger on Workbooks.

The Functional Programming in JavaScript is a GitHub repository with a workbook you can clone. Or you can just read it on the web at this link.

JavaScript does not require you to declare the types of your variables, function arguments, objects, object properties, or much of anything. However, if you give it some hints as to what you expect (as comments in your code), you can help a reader understand your program, and software tools find mistakes.

This page describes some programming practices that are recommended for CS559.