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The problem is is that they dont understand the the true power of what you can do in javascript and some of the quirks and stumbling points in the language

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It will teach you all of the most important fundamentals and gotchas of the language

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Although its been around for almost 20 years js doesnt have a well established standard the gap between different hosting environments and other important issues are not covered by ecmascript specification

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Js is a very powerful and dynamic language to begin with which without correct guidance may lead you tofundamental mistakes struggling with unanticipated untraceable bugs and inefficient computing

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How to use them properly in terms of context this object objectsprototypes the identity of objects as classesinterfaces proper prototyping and inheritance arrays how to leverage standard array api and common pitfalls api design tips on how to write a concise and unambiguous api be it for public use or your own code base concurrency guidelines for writing asynchronous functions properly and a brief description of promises

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It often shows a piece of code with an not obvious error in it

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It will then explain why it wont execute how you would probably expect it and afterwards shows some code which avoids the error

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Best javascript book you can get concise and a quick read with no cruft