"Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provides a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language in this four-part video."
all four-part-videos recorded in 2007
acc. to crockford, closures are the most powerful thing, js has.
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html , http://www.jslint.com
from yahoo: "Douglas Crockford teaches "Advanced JavaScript." This course is broken into three clips; this is the first of those three clips. Slides: http://yuiblog.com/assets/crockford/advancedjavascript.zip. Note that when Douglas begins the talk referring to the "third installment", he's referring to "Advanced JavaScript" being the third class in a series; this is indeed the first of the three clips comprising the "Advanced JavaScript" class. "
... "later"-function, debugger (e.g. firebug)
history of the web, first developments, browserwar, apache, walkTheDom-Function (getElementsByClassName)
hyphens and camelCase, innerHTML, bubbeling down - trickeling up
same origin policy, cross browser, identification of browser (ie as mozilla (;-)), feature detection, platforms (-10,30) - YUI, hit the "wall2
software crisis, history of languages, teambuilding, incrementalism
about his own history too, invention of json