Comments on: Learning functional Javascript through Koans

By: Jay McGavren

Jay McGavren — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:53:08 +0000

Dunno if you’ll be notified of this, so I’ll cc: your GitHub account…

Got a question on:

https://github.com/mrdavidlaing/javascript-koans/blob/master/koans/AboutInheritance.js

After applying “Crockford’s inheritance improvement”, the comment says I “no longer need to call the Muppet (base type) constructor”. I’m not seeing the difference for the code for Gonzo and the code for the SwedishChef, though. (Well, aside from the call to beget().) What am I missing?

Overall, though, the koans are helping me grok Javascript quickly and (reasonably) well. Thanks for doing them!

By: mrdavidlaing

mrdavidlaing — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:20:09 +0000

Cool idea.

How about submitting a patch/pull request, and I’ll get your watchr script included in the master branch

By: mrdavidlaing

mrdavidlaing — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:19:05 +0000

Hey, I’m glad you’ve found them useful.

If you have anything to add… we’re always happy to accept patches/pull requests

By: Sarah Allen

Sarah Allen — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:30:53 +0000

Love these! Sitting in on Javascript class at Blazing Cloud today with Alex Chaffee. He’s reviewing the homework which was from a fork of your koans. So much fun! Thanks for making ‘em.

By: Mario Aquino

Mario Aquino — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:14:05 +0000

Thanks for writing the JavaScript koans. I am going through them now. I posted a small bit about a watchr script I wrote to automate refreshing the koansrunner file. Here it is: http://marioaquino.blogspot.com/2010/10/watchr-is-teh-awesome.html