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Basti Ortiz • Edited

This is a nice and quick reference on this for those familiar with it already. It's a great crash course on everything.

However, I wouldn't exactly say that this is going to be "helpful to someone new to JavaScript". If I read this when I first started JavaScript, all this jargon and terminologies would blow my mind off of its brain stem (no joke). It is especially intimidating to see those big words for a first-time programmer. Now that I think about it, I do see that the deep vocabulary of the article is completely necessary given the topic. It's just hard to explain the dynamic nature and context-sensitive behavior of this. Oh, what a pain it is to teach!

Nonetheless, this is a satisfyingly concise article on this. Good job!