You study Galileo and Newton and all their contributions to the field and that gives us the overall view of physics.
Well, first semester of physics is a history class. Why do you feel programmers should study the history of Computer Science? Doug freely shared his thoughts on great programmers, user empathy, and how JSON restored his faith in humanity. While his day job may be as a JavaScript evangelist, speaking with Doug you get the sense he really is an evangelist for programming in general.īelow is a conversation that took place in Bozeman, Montana prior to a talk at Montana State University. Self-taught (as many of the greats are), he says his goal is simply to get more people coding in JavaScript, or any language for that matter. A veteran of Silicon Valley, he’s worked at Atari Labs, founded and worked at numerous software start-ups, was head of technology at Lucas Films and now has the enviable job of being a JavaScript evangelist at Yahoo!. He was featured in the book Coders at Work for his contributions and philosophies on what JavaScript got right, and what it didn’t.Īs a native of Southern California, Doug has the build of a surfer lean and tall with white hair and a beard.
He’s famous not only for his O’Reilly book JavaScript: The Good Parts but even more so as the visionary behind the JSON data format as well as the JSLint tool. Douglas Crockford is known as The JavaScript Guy.
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