‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

For the last few years, I’ve been running into presentation after presentation on generative art, meaning art created with code. Two talks at the Strange Loop 2018 conference in September were the ...

This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to JavaScript Map and Set, explaining their differences, use cases, and how to effectively utilize them. JavaScript offers a rich set of data structures ...

JavaScript was invented in the mid-1990s as a programming language that could run inside a web page and make it interactive, says Kyle Simpson, director of web futures at Getify Solutions, which ...

JavaScript was developed in May 1995 by Brendon Eich who worked for Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript was conceived from the need to make web pages more dynamic. Eich created it in just ...