‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

There are many ways in which JavaScript's approach is different from standard, run of the mill, class-based languages, but some of them go unnoticed. Take the whole subject of parameter passing - ...