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San Francisco, CA, January 30, 2014—It's no secret that JavaScript is as powerful as it is popular. JavaScript continues to be the language of choice for programmers who want to create applications that work regardless of the platform. Yet elements of the language still remain a mystery even to longtime JavaScript coders.

The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript (No Starch Press, Feb 2014, 120 pp., $24.95, ISBN 9781593275402) is the key to unlocking one feature of JavaScript that is consistently underutilized by even the savviest coders: its unique approach to object-oriented programming. Inside this concise and important book, best-selling author Nicholas C. Zakas explores JavaScript's object-oriented structure, bringing his years of engineering experience at Yahoo! to the table.

Inside The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript, readers will learn:

The differences between primitive and reference values
What makes JavaScript functions so unique
Various ways to create objects
How to define constructors
How to work with prototypes
Inheritance patterns for types and objects

While JavaScript isn’t known for object orientation, Zakas expands on this underrated feature to give even seasoned programmers new tools to write shorter, more effective code.

The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript will be available in bookstores everywhere soon.

About the Author

Nicholas C. Zakas is a principal architect at Box and is known writing and speaking about the latest in JavaScript best practices. He honed his experience during his five years at Yahoo!, where he was the principal frontend engineer for the Yahoo! home page. He is the author of several books, including Maintainable JavaScript (O'Reilly Media, 2012) and Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012).

About No Starch Press
Founded in 1994, No Starch Press publishes the finest in geek entertainment. Our titles have personality, our authors are passionate, and our books tackle topics that people care about. No Starch Press titles have won the Grand Prize at the San Francisco Book Festival and the Independent Publisher Book Award (the "IPPY") from Independent Publisher.

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