JSFoo 2012
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Shreyank Gupta
@shreyankg
Score with Underscore.js
Submitted Aug 2, 2012
Section:
Browser
Technical level:
Intermediate
Session type:
Tutorial
How Underscore.js brings functional programming into JavaScript and how it ties with Backbone.js
Outline
Underscore.js provides a set of utilities which allows a JavaScript programmer to go functional. Quoting the documentation, “It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux, and Backbone.js’s suspenders”
In the tutorial I aim to cover why functional programming is the way to go for JavaScript programmers and how Underscore.js makes it a reality.
I’ll walk through each, map, reduce, filter, select etc. and most of the useful functional bits of Underscore. I’ll also cover the other bits including bind, throttle etc. and features like chaining.
Underscore.js makes you think differently while writing JavaScript. That’s what I want the audience to take back from the session.
Requirements
Functional programming basics.
JavaScript Basics.
Speaker bio
Shreyank Gupta works as a Software Engineer at Red Hat. He writes code in Python, Ruby and JavaScript.
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