• Take advantage of JavaScript's functional and dynamic nature
• Understand lexical scope and closure
• Unit test JavaScript code
• Write object-oriented code
• Avoid (few) JavaScript quirks and common pitfalls
• Apply asynchronous and event-driven patterns
• Use behaviors and stay unobtrusive

Day 1:

Introduction to unit testing (QUnit)

JSLint (will hurt your feelings)

Objects

• object literals
• default & guard operators
• updating properties & property attributes (eval/firebug gotcha)
• prototype
• property enumeration
• delete operator

Functions

• function object
• declaration hoisting
• literal
• arguments
• invocation (4 ways)
• return
• recursion

Arrays

• array literals
• length & delete
• for vs. for in
• arrays vs. associative arrays
• augmenting array prototype
• multidimensional arrays

Functions

• lexical scope
• closure
• module pattern
• a few functional programming patterns (chaining, bind, curry, memoization)
• Doloto-like dynamic code loader (pitfalls - function as a value)

Day 2:

Unit testing

• testing asynchronous code
• mocking

OOP

• inheritance (pseudoclassical, prototypal, functional)
• overriding & super()
• how not to implement singleton (i.e. why have a class when you only need one instance of it)

Asynchronous programming patterns

• callback (asynchronous method)
• promise/future (deferrable value)
• observable
• IOC/testability, lazy resource management, throttling, funneling

A few notes on minimizers (Google closure compiler)

Disecting JQuery

How does this all fit together - a small primer

• A component based micro-architecture featuring IOC, services, behaviors
• Instrumentation, debugging & reproducibility in asynchronous, event-driven environment

Server-side JavaScript - a short Node.js demo