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JavaScript & Prototypal Inheritance

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I gave a presentation this morning as apart of my Principles of Programming Languages subject on how the basic prototype inheritance in JavaScript can be achieved:

It was restricted to 5 minutes (bah! nothing!) and I practised about 5-7 times to make sure it fit – which it did. I found the most useful segment to illustrate the prototype inheritance chain was via the diagram (second last slide).

The best source I’ve found so far is Douglas Crockford (wrote ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’). Here he discusses prototypal inheritance.

Due to the 5 minutes constraint I couldn’t deal with Crockford’s beget method or any other techniques or applications of the prototype object. Still the presentation I gave enlightened people I believe.

Mucsa AGM

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

The Melbourne University Computer Students Association has scheduled their next AGM. Date? Thursday, 21st of August.

I’ve produced the poster for this latest event as Marketing Officer (what a grind!). See attached, observe the humorous pop culture references, observe!!