What are good JavaScript OOP resources?

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TK. picture TK. · Dec 15, 2009 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

JavaScript is a lightweight and powerful language, but it's often misunderstood and hard to learn (especially about its object oriented programming).

What are the good materials (blogs, screencasts and books) to learn JavaScript OOP? The topics can be anything, but let's not include browsers, AJAX and libraries for now.

Also how did you learn the functional programming, closure, object, inheritance and design patterns in JavaScript? Personally I would like to see more code examples because some of the books I mentioned above keep the example minimal.

(EDIT: As this post is now community effort, please help maintain and develop the following list of resources!)

Books

Videos

On Stack Overflow

Others

Answer

GmonC picture GmonC · Dec 15, 2009

You can see great code examples of Javascript in mainstream libraries like jQuery. I've learned a lot just reading it's source code. There's nothing better than reading sources that are working in millions of websites and are concerned about best practices.

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