Eloquent Book, Sir

Over the years my areas of interest in the world of coding has shifted dramatically. Web development is what originally hooked me. I could build a public stage for whatever art or writings I came up with. From there I became fascinated with application development, building little text editors and goofy utilities etc.

I wanted to learn C++ so I could make 'super' applications but all the tutorials were console apps - eww - I wanted to make super cool GUIDs etc.  Basically I wanted to compete in the Olympics before I had learned to crawl.

Fast forward nearly 20 years...

Now I'm far more interested in the back end. How things work on a lower and lower level. Web development and graphical UIs do not interest me. Ironically everything I do in my free time is UI-less, running in the console.

I am not terribly interested in C++ I prefer the portability of Java, plus it's real easy to run my Java console apps in gnu-root on my phone.

But career-wise I'm shifting into web services, APIs etc. So I have to dust off good old Javascript. During a web search for whatever js question I had, I bumped into Eloquent Javascript. So I got the book and started reading it. I've only read a few pages but already I can say I love this book!

It is as entertaining and inspiring as Life With Linux is! In just a page or two it brings the developer dragon within you to life. We'll see if this continues throughout the book but so far I really like Marijn Haverbeke's writing style. Any book that gives a binary application as its very first example is top shelf in my opinion.

You can read the book here:

Eloquent Javascript.