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Naming is one of the best investments
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Choose your words wisely. (3:08)
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What do you mean? (12:15)
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Read the code out loud (2:38)
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Be specific (5:01)
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Abbr. (8:58)
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Function naming matters too (7:18)
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scopeConventions - naming that helps identify scope (5:17)
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ConstructorFunctions - how to name constructor functions (2:50)
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CONSTANT_CONVENTIONS - naming to indicate constants (2:12)
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What is hungarian notation? (8:07)
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Be careful what you say (1:40)
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Translating abstractions (5:27)
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Be explicit (7:41)
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Tips for pluralization (2:28)
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Hands on with a bubble sort algorithm.
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My thoughts on the bubble sort algorithm (14:12)
Consistency in the structure of code
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Would you read this book? (3:24)
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How to structurally format code with consistency (4:20)
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Using tools to handle formatting for you. (4:02)
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Controlling indentation in code. (3:49)
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Controlling spacing in code. (4:39)
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Leverage line wraps and braces to partition code vertically. (5:58)
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Watching line length (4:26)
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Removing excessive blank lines (1:29)
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One set of settings for the team (3:25)
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Being explicit with parenthesis (2:52)
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Hands on - make sense of this
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My thoughts on the hands on example (11:01)
The role comments play in code.
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What's the color of George Washington's white horse? (2:22)
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Restating the obvious (2:23)
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Comments at the end of lines (5:29)
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Comments in lieu of naming (7:04)
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Comments in lieu of functions (4:49)
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Comments in lieu of changing the code (2:56)
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Commented out code (4:04)
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Commenting public interfaces and JSDoc (6:12)
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Comments to explain tradeoffs (2:30)
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Leaving todos in code (2:52)
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Carefully crafting comments (3:13)
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The infamous 50 line file header comment (3:59)
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Hands on - what do you think of these comments?
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My thoughts about comments in the hands on example (11:07)
Tools that can take some of the pain out of writing JavaScript well
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What role can tools play in all of this? (2:04)
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Opening the samples for this course in WebStorm (3:30)
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Finding your way around WebStorm (4:39)
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Navigating code like a pro in WebStorm (8:40)
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Running a JavaScript file in WebStorm and viewing the results (2:17)
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Refactoring code like a pro in WebStorm (4:29)
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EditorConfig, a tool to help enforce basic rules across a variety of editors (5:44)
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JSLint (9:29)
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JSHint (8:13)
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ESLint (7:55)
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A workflow to catch issues as they happen, but with a safety net just in case (2:35)
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ESLint inspections combined with the power of WebStorm code formatting (3:34)
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Hands On - try these tools out
The impact of function composition
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Functions matter too
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Some background on the code example we'll use throughout this section. (8:58)
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Size matters (2:40)
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Applying Command Query Separation (CQS) (5:48)
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Returning early (8:20)
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Not returning early? (3:58)
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Explicit return statements with intermediate variables (4:26)
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Declare variables next to their first use (10:27)
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The compose method refactoring (9:03)
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Parameter overload! (3:43)
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Hands on - real world
Next
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What next?
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Automated testing helps you write code well (6:59)
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My first automated test (6:29)
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Functional programming with JavaScript (14:28)
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Object Oriented Programming principles (OOP) (4:20)
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Asynchronous JavaScript and the callback nightmare (3:59)
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Future versions of JavaScript and the lambda (5:33)
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