Douglas Crockford. Javascript has a good parts

Douglas Crockford delivers an in-depth lecture series on the history, functions, inheritance patterns, and best practices of JavaScript.

2. Forthcoming 00:08 – History of Javascript 14:45 – Objects 22:13 – Numbers 31:25 – Booleans and strings 37:26 – Arrays 42:21 – Dates, regex and types 52:42 – Syntax 58:09 – Statements 3. Function the ultimate 63:44 – Functions 71:22 – Function best practices 82:37 – Closure 89:12 – Closure examples 102:58 – Pseudo-classical inheritance 112:59 – Module pattern 120:58 – Pseudo-classical versus functional inheritance 4. The metamorphosis of Ajax 127:33 – The history of HTML 136:42 – How Javascript saved HTML 146:59 – The browser 151:38 – The script tag 159:28 – Document tree structure 165:05 – Retrieving nodes 174:35 – Events 181:16 – DOM performance 186:01 – Division of labor 5. ES5: the new parts 192:17 – A better Javascript 197:03 – New syntax 202:53 – New methods 213:07 – Meta-object API 220:46 – Strict mode cl.ly/2K1S0Y3r040z