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As this metaclass / function VS Function / whatever dispatch business is much worse than recently discussed message-passing purism, in its worst forms.
I can highly recommend these books. They're one of the only books that do a real deep-dive into the language. I often have to interview people for javascript jobs. It's astonishing how few of them actually get how the `this` keyword, closures, prototypes etc work. So the title of the series may be arrogant, but not wrong.
I asked him what questions he found tricky and a lot of them are really simple javascript 'things' (scopes, closure, iife, etc) that would come up sooner or later when you're working with the language
I can highly recommend these books. They're one of the only books that do a real deep-dive into the language. I often have to interview people for javascript jobs. It's astonishing how few of them actually get how the `this` keyword, closures, prototypes etc work. So the title of the series may be arrogant, but not wrong.
I really don't get the arrogant "You don't know X". Maybe I know it, maybe I don't know it. But if I know it already, then I am wasting my time since I think I don't know it (not really). However if I don't know it, then the condescending tone doesn't really motivate me to want to know (while I love to learn about Javascript).
I can highly recommend these books. They're one of the only books that do a real deep-dive into the language. I often have to interview people for javascript jobs. It's astonishing how few of them actually get how the `this` keyword, closures, prototypes etc work. So the title of the series may be arrogant, but not wrong.
Here is my review for JavaScript coding interviews.[0] I should update the REST API section a little since I learned how to use Swagger. [0]: https://github.com/adam-s/js-interview-review
If you search Amazon for these titles, you'll see the author reacting poorly to bad reviews.
Note that this review not only is completely unhelpful with just the single word "meh", leaving me nothing as an author to do to improve... but also that this review was from the kindle edition, which is FREE. ChrisP got a free copy of my book -- intentionally offered that way at a loss of income to both me and my publisher -- and took the time to come here and give a one-word, one-star review.
Seems quite reasonable to me really (though perhaps he'd be better off just ignoring that sort of feedback). I didn't spend long searching this so perhaps he's reacted worse elsewhere.