References

Articles

• JavaScript Language Overview highlights the important features of JavaScript. (Skip the sections on classes and asynchronous programming.)

• TypeScript for JavaProgrammers highlights the key differences between TypeScript and Java, namely, structural typing and type erasure.

References

• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is the definitive source for JavaScript information.

• typescriptlang.org is the definite source for TypeScript information.

Advanced Topics

• Effective TypeScript has more advanced tips on using TypeScript. Most are beyond what we will need in this course, but if you want to learn more about the language, this is a good source.

Related Readings

• The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks

  • • First edition pdf

    • Wikipedia

• The Pragmatic Programmer

• The Rise of Worse is Better by Dick Gabriel

  • • Some context provided in: Worse is Better

• The Architecture of Complexity by Herbert Simon

• Quoted Often, Followed Rarely

  • • Retrospective on Fred Brook's software engineering advice

• The Left Hand of Equals

• Are bugs and slow delivery ok?

  • • Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”: The blog post that I’ve hated the most, ever