On Nov 18, 4:11 am, "T.J. Crowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That list falls neatly into two categories: Basic techniques not
> requiring *too* much in terms of conceptual understanding (the first
> five items), then more conceptual (and powerful) stuff (the last five
> items). I probably would have put Enumerable lower down except that
> it goes well with the "basic techniques" group.
Yeah, that's the hard part. I think $$ and Enumerable go together
because so many novice use cases for Enumerable will involve filtering
DOM result sets. So I'd be inclined to move $$ to #5.
> Nit-picking, "Treat functions like first-class objects" sounds as
> though they aren't, but we're treating them like they are. I'd say
> the focus should be on the student learning that in JavaScript,
> functions *are* first-class objects. It's one of the most powerful
> concepts in the language.
The phrasing assumes that the user probably hasn't come from a
language where functions _are_ first-class objects; that's all that
was intended.
Thanks for your feedback, everyone.
Cheers,
Andrew
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