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Despite the JavaScript revolution, people still resist it
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Stunning the non-JavaScript web developers
What were the Django people doing while JavaScript was becoming popular?
How JavaScript became popular—recap
The JavaScript explosion was initiated by a series of events from 2008 to 2015
How JavaScript became popular—part 5
The frameworks changed the way web applications work
How JavaScript became popular—part 4
JavaScript was a bad language but Babel helped work around the problem
How JavaScript became popular—part 3
Running the same language on the server and on the browser was quite appealing
How JavaScript became popular—part 2
In 2009 you no longer needed a browser to run JavaScript.
How JavaScript became popular—part 1
Google Chrome precipitated the JavaScript revolution
Why most software is substandard
Programmers are condemned by the nature of programming itself to make bad software
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Some names should be better left meaningless
Gregorian calendar fun fact
Why was the calendar moved by ten days? Why not nine or eleven?
Can math be written better?
Ideas from programming could help make math more understandable
Splitting in smaller functions
After fixing variable names, it's the next step towards improving readability
Improving variable names in the Easter program
Just with a few changes in names the algorithm starts making sense
Testing the Easter program—part 2
FAQ on the testing code
Testing the Easter program—part 1
Before improving the main code, it's important to have automated tests
Cleaning up the Easter program
Don't add features to your scientific code (yet); clean it up first
Implementing the Easter algorithm
A simple JavaScript program that illustrates how scientific code becomes a mess
Easter algorithms
A problem that has fascinated mathematicians for centuries
Easter
How is the Easter date determined?