Outline

Uses & contexts
- Web pages
- User interface (Mozilla)
- ActionScript (Adobe Flash)
- Server-Side JavaScript
- Shell (JScript in Windows)
Document Object Model
- Events
- Modifications
Functions
- First class objects
- Higher order functions
- Anonymous functions (lambdas)
- Closures
- Functional programming
- Constructors ("classes")
- Methods
- Modules
Objects
- Dynamic properties and methods
- Prototypal inheritance (no classes--objects inherit from objects)|
- Object literal notation (JSON)
- Objects from parts (composition)
- Loose typing (no casting or deep hierarchies)
- Namespaces
Frameworks & libraries
- jQuery
  - is a monad
- Prototype
Standards & best practices
- ECMAScript
  - ECMAScript 3
    - One HTML file
    - Several HTML files
  - ECMAScript 4 (dropped)
  - ECMAScript 5 (approved)
  - ECMAScript Harmony
    - A proposal for the version after ECMAScript 5
    - Brendan Eich on Harmony (video)
    - Douglas Crockford on Harmony (video)
- W3C DOM
  - Core
    - Level 1
    - Level 2
    - Level 3
  - HTML
    - Level 1
    - Level 2
- W3C XMLHttpRequest
- Gurus
  - Douglas Crockford
  - John Resig
Official documentation & guides
- Mozilla
- Microsoft
  - JScript Language Reference
  - JScript User's Guide
  - HTML and DHTML Reference
    - DHTML Object Model? Lol.
Third-party resources (good, bad, and ugly?)
Tools
- Browser addons
- JSLint
- JSMin
Global variables (yuck!)