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Let's make a shit javascript interpreter! Part one. As a learning exercise, I've begun writing a javascript ECMAScript interpreter in python . It doesn't even really exist yet, and when it does it will run really slowly, and not support all js features. So... let's make a "from scratch", all parsing, all dancing, shit interpreter of our very own! Teaching something is a great way to learn. Also writing things on my blog always gets good 'comments', hints, tips, plenty of heart, and outright HATE from people. All useful and entertaining :) Tokenising So to start with, we need something to turn the .js files into a list of tokens. This type of program is called a tokeniser. From some javascript like this: function i_can_has_cheezbrgr () {return 'yum';}; Into a Token list something like this: [ {"type":"name", "value":"function", "from":0, "to":8}, {"type":"n

Over the last few months I've been fairly deep into javascript land. Both in my full time job, and in most of my coding side projects - I've been mostly doing javascript. Of course, like most web programmers I've been dabbling in javascript over the years... but never so intensely. On the way I've been collecting a 'reading list' of videos, articles, books, and projects. Here are some of the good links from the last few months. Crockford on javascript videos: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/ 2010/04/08/video-crockonjs-5/? utm_source=feedburner&utm_ medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed% 3A+YahooUserInterfaceBlog+% 28Yahoo!+User+Interface+Blog% 29 akihabara arcade: http://www.kesiev.com/ akihabara/ canvas javascript games: http://www.benjoffe.com/code/ javascript 3d engine: http://github.com/mrdoob/ three.js Aves Engine: HTML/ JavaScript Game Engine ( youtube.com ) http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo http://ajaxian.com/archives/ aves-game-e